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Tower 13

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Anne Chen

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

Last modified Feb 11, 2021 06:50 AM — History

tags: YDEA project

Rectangular 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/980015043

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
34.7437757089, 40.7285573791

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Plan location of Tower 13 (100 BC - AD 199) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.

Names:

None

Tower 13 makes connections with:

Tower 13 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)

Tower 13 receives connections from:

None

Place type:
tower (wall)

References:

See Further:

Baird 2018 p. 20

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

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Suggested citation:
Anne Chen, Kyle Conrau-Lewis, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Tower 13: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/980015043> [accessed: 15 September 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/980015043 |title=Places: 980015043 (Tower 13) |author=Chen, A. |accessdate=September 15, 2024 3:46 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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