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Dura-Europos [a] was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman border city built on an escarpment 90 metres (300 feet) above the southwestern bank of the Euphrates river. It is located near the village of Al-Salihiyah, in present-day Syria. Dura-Europos was founded around 300 BC by Seleucus I Nicator, who founded the Seleucid Empire as one of the ...
The so-called Dolicheneum is a temple in Dura Europos in the east of today's Syria, where Jupiter Dolichenus and god called Zeus Helios Mithras Turmasgade may have been worshiped. [1] The remains of the temple were excavated in 1935/36, [ 1 ] but results were never fully published.
Horse armour found at Dura-Europos. At the ancient site of Dura-Europos, there were two full sets of scale armour for horses found during archaeology excavations. These sets of armour were determined to be from the Roman occupation of the city in the 3rd century CE.
The Christian chapel at Dura-Europos was a domus ecclesiae that occupied an old, private dwelling in the ancient city's M8 block, along the western rampart of the city, opposite Gate 17, a short distance south of the main door. This house's layout is typical of local domestic architecture; it had a square, central courtyard around which the ...
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The house is 440.5 m 2 and has a total of 15 rooms with one entrance at H2-D6. There is no evidence of when the house was constructed. [5]At the time of discovery the four courtyards, H2-D1, H2-G1, H2-F1, and H2-D'5, provided reason to believe that the unit contained four homes, but upon further excavation, all of the houses had connecting doorways except for H2-F, which was formerly connected ...
Plan of Dura-Europos showing the Mithraeum marked as J7. Partially preserved by the defensive embankment was the Mithraeum (CIMRM 34–70), located between towers 23 and 24. . It was unearthed in January 1934 after years of expectation as to whether Dura would reveal traces of the Roman Mithras cu
The Temple of Zeus Megistos is in Dura-Europos in the east of the city in a part of the city that is modernly referred to as the Acropolis. It was one of the main temples of the city, the oldest construction phases of which perhaps go back to the time when the city was under Greek rule (from about 300 to 114 BC).