Tower 17
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Anne Chen Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Anne Chen Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Feb 11, 2021 06:51 AM
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History
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YDEA project
Rectangular defensive tower located on the western side 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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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/980015047
3846187.76268, 658137.566923
- Plan location of Tower 17 (100 BC - AD 199)
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- Tower 17 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
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tower (wall)
- See Further:
Pleiades
Anne Chen, Kyle Conrau-Lewis, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Tower 17: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/980015047> [accessed: 06 March 2021]
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