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Tower 19, Dura-Europos

rectangular defensive tower located on the western side of the defensive circuit walls around the city of Dura-Europos
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Key Facts

  • Country: Syria[1]
  • Instance of: ruins[2], cultural property[3], defensive tower[4], cultural heritage[5]
  • Made from material: limestone[6]
  • Part of: Dura-Europos[7], City wall of Dura-Europos[8]
  • Inception: 156 BC[9]
  • Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 256[10]
  • Significant event: Siege of Dura-Europos[11], Yale-French Excavation Season Six at Dura-Europos[12]
  • Adjacent structure or building: Roman countermine near Tower 19[13]
  • On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject International (Digital) Dura-Europos Archive[14]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [1] ↑ . pleiades.stoa.org. pleiades.stoa.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [2] ↑ . pleiades.stoa.org. pleiades.stoa.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . pleiades.stoa.org. pleiades.stoa.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [4] ↑ . pleiades.stoa.org. pleiades.stoa.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [6] ↑ . pleiades.stoa.org. pleiades.stoa.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [7] ↑ . pleiades.stoa.org. pleiades.stoa.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . pleiades.stoa.org. pleiades.stoa.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . pleiades.stoa.org. pleiades.stoa.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [11] ↑ . pleiades.stoa.org. pleiades.stoa.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [12] ↑ . The Excavations at Dura-Europos: Preliminary Report of Sixth Season of Work, October 1932 – March 1933. wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7d ago · Ahc84 · 2026-10-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 34.74768100017236, 'lon': 40.726558162504716}
    Adjacent structure or building → Roman countermine near Tower 19
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Adjacent structure or building: Roman countermine near Tower 19"
  2. 9w ago · Ahc84 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 34.74768100017236, 'lon': 40.726558162504716}
    Dissolved, abolished or demolished date → +0256-00-00T00:00:00Z
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|2 */ Significant event: Siege of Dura-Europos"
  3. 9w ago · Ahc84 · 2026-08-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 34.74768100017236, 'lon': 40.726558162504716}
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ Coordinate location: 34°44'51.62993"N, 40°43'35.61139"E, delete existing coordinate point in prep for replacement with geoshape centroid ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6c"
  4. 18w ago · Ahc84 · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Part of → Dura-Europos, City wall of Dura-Europos
    Pleiades id → 980015049
    Wikidata description → rectangular defensive tower located on the western side of the defensive circuit
    Made from material → limestone
    + 11 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Inception: 156 BCE"
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