Tower 18
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).
Last modified
Jan 10, 2025 08:05 PM
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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.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/980015048
34.7470592437, 40.7268628824
- Representative Locations:
- Plan location of Tower 18 (100 BC - AD 199) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Tower 18 part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
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tower (wall)
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Anne Chen, Kyle Conrau-Lewis, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Tower 18: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/980015048> [accessed: 09 March 2025]
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