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Tower 5a

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Anne Chen
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Kyle Conrau-Lewis, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Jan 14, 2026 01:51 PM — History
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Rectangular defensive tower located on the northeastern end of the defensive circuit walls around the city of Dura-Europos. Built ca. 150 BCE, the city's fortifications were breached in 256 CE and went out of use thereafter.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/980015035

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tower (wall)

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Anne Chen, Jeffrey Becker, Kyle Conrau-Lewis, and Tom Elliott, 'Tower 5a: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/980015035> [accessed: 13 July 2026] 

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