D(o)ura/Europos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Roaf, St J. Simpson
Creators: M. Roaf, St J. Simpson
Contributors:
Faith Lubeck, R. Talbert, Kali Kocian, Rajas Pradhan, Jeffrey Becker, Adam Rabinowitz, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Kali Kocian, Sean Gillies, Jeffery Mayfield
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Last modified
Jul 28, 2016 03:28 PM
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History
An ancient settlement on the Euphrates river in modern Syria.
Show place in AWMC's Antiquity À-la-carte, Google Earth, or Pelagios' Peripleo.
Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/893990
34.7491245, 40.7285885
- DARMC location 22390 (330 BC - AD 300)
- Temple of Artemis Azzanathkona (330 BC - AD 226)
- Euphrates (Attested dates needed)
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settlement, temple
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 91 B3 Dura/Europus
- Carly Silver, "Dura-Europos: Crossroad of Cultures," Archaeology: Online Features, August 11, 2010
- Dura-Europos: Excavating Antiquity (Yale University Art Gallery)
- New Pauly, Dura-Europus
- OEANE Dura-Europos
- PECS (Perseus), DURA EUROPOS Syria
- Rostovtzeff 1943
- Wikipedia, Dura-Europos
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 91 B3 Dura/Europus
The Ancient World Image Bank (a publication of NYU's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, whose director runs the Amheida excavations) provides an open-access collection of images from Doura.
M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, Faith Lubeck, R. Talbert, Kali Kocian, Rajas Pradhan, Jeffrey Becker, Adam Rabinowitz, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Kali Kocian, Sean Gillies, and Jeffery Mayfield, 'D(o)ura/Europos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2016 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/893990> [accessed: 25 June 2017]
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