Tower 10

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Anne Chen

Contributors: Kyle Conrau-Lewis, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Jan 10, 2025 08:44 PM — History

tags: YDEA project

Defensive tower located on the southern 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.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/980015040

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
34.7439103956, 40.7307496277

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Plan location of Tower 10 (100 BC - AD 199) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.

Names:

None

Tower 10 makes connections with:

Tower 10 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)

Tower 10 receives connections from:

None

Place type:
tower (wall)

References:

See Further:

Baird 2018 p. 20

Related:

Wikidata Tower 10, Dura-Europos (Q108073619)

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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Suggested citation:
Anne Chen, Kyle Conrau-Lewis, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Tower 10: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/980015040> [accessed: 11 March 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

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