Palmyrene Gate
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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Aug 08, 2024 09:17 PM
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History
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YDEA project
Main entrance gate in the western city walls of Dura-Europos. Built ca. 150 BCE, the city's fortifications were breached sometime around 256 CE and went out of use thereafter.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/980015057
34.7463496754, 40.7272024407
- Representative Locations:
- Plan location of Palmyrene Gate (100 BC - AD 199) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- porta praetoriana (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Palmyrene Gate part of (physical/topographic) City Wall of Dura-Europos (unspecified date range)
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gate (of a city), city gate
- See Further:
Pleiades
Anne Chen, Kyle Conrau-Lewis, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Palmyrene Gate: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/980015057> [accessed: 03 October 2024]
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