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Archaeological site Greek and Roman

Dura-Europos

Ancient Syrian city

  • Dated from c. 300 BCE
  • Also called Dura, Dura Europos, al Athar (the ruins)
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Overview

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From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.

Within the site

Inside Dura-Europos

3 recorded places within the site, from their own records.

What this means

A place listed here names this site as its whole or its location in its own record; the build reads that from the place’s end, so the row is computed rather than stated by the site. It does not imply that the site as a whole was a place of worship, that its parts were in use at the same time, or that these are all the places it held.

Site history & evidence

What is documented here

Each kind of evidence on its own row, because they do not add up.

Evidence On record What it shows
Site date Dated from c. 300 BCE On the timeline A date for the site as recorded — not a date of worship there.
Location Recorded to the site On the atlas A coordinate for the place. It locates the site; it does not draw its extent.
Dated activity None recorded A pin is a place, not an event. What happened at Dura-Europos, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity.

History

Recorded events

What Dura-Europos’s own record names in its history, in the order of the dates on the statements.

What this means

Events Wikidata records in a subject’s history, and the day a festival is kept. Not a complete history, and the day a festival falls on is not when it began. Each date is the one on the statement itself; an event with none is named after the line. It does not imply that these are all the events in its history, or that Wikidata ranks the events by importance.

  1. 239 CE Siege of Dura-Europos  ↗ Has references
  2. 256 CE Siege of Dura-Europos  ↗ Hedged in the source
  3. 29 April 1920 CE San Remo conference  ↗ Has references

Also recorded, with no date on the statement

Connections

How Dura-Europos connects

Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.

Affiliation 3

What this means

Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.

Does not imply a fixed roster · that every account of the tradition knows this figure

Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.

Sources

Sources and evidence

Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.

How this site reads its sources

25 statements on this record

  • 17 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
  • 4 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 2 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
  • 1 Hedged in the source The source said circa, allegedly or presumably. This does not turn that into a date.

Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.

Three layers, three licences

Data
Wikidata · CC0 1.0
Text
Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
Pictures
Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms

Review

Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.

Computed Worked out here, not stated by any source: 3 recorded places within it. Each is marked where it is shown.

Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.

Steve Swayne · CC BY 2.0

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