Betthorus
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S.T. Parker Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: S.T. Parker Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jul 14, 2022 05:00 PM
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History
A Roman castrum of the limes Arabicus. In the fourth century, Legio IV Martia was stationed here.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697643
31.2370046138, 35.8683652975
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Betthorus (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- DARMC location 19060 (AD 300 - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARE Location (AD 300 - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Betthorus (AD 300 - AD 640)
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settlement, fort, tower (deprecated)
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- See Also:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 71 B3 Betthorus
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: el-Lejjun.
The castrum is rectangular, measuring 190 by 242 meters; the site covers more than 11 acres. The castrum wall originally featured twenty interval towers.
S.T. Parker, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Betthorus: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/697643> [accessed: 23 April 2025]
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