Palmyrene Gate

wall · 100 BC – 2100 AD

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.

Coordinates

34.74635, 40.72720

Also known as

Bab al-Hawa (ar), porta praetoriana (en), porta praetoriana (en), باب الهوا (ar)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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