Place Greek and Roman
Temple of Bêl
Temple building located on the northwest side of Dura-Europos, Syria
- Dated between 131 BCE and 50 CE – 256 CE
- Also called Temple of the Palmyrene Gods, Temple of Zeus, Temple of Palmyrene Bel
Overview
From Wikipedia, quoted unmodified under CC BY-SA 4.0; the article’s history is its list of authors.
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 between 131 BCE and 50 CE – 256 CE On the timeline | A date for the site as recorded — not the start of worship, and not a floor on the tradition here. |
| 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 Temple of Bêl, and when, is a separate claim, and this import holds none: it carries site locations, not dated activity. |
Nearby
Places nearby
The nearest this collection holds, measured between recorded coordinates.
What this means
Computed from coordinates, not stated by any source. Nearness is geometry, not a connection: two sites a kilometre apart may never have shared a worshipper, a tradition or a century. Where either coordinate is recorded only to a district, the distance is rounded and says “about”.
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under 1 km awayDura-Europos synagogue
an ancient synagogue uncovered at Dura-Europos, Syria, in 1932; the last phase of construction was dated by an Aramaic inscription to 244 AD, making it one of the oldest synagogues in the world -
under 1 km awayDura-Europos
ancient Syrian city -
under 1 km awayChristian Building, Dura-Europos
structure located in block M8 at Dura-Europos (Syria), converted from house to Christian worship space
History
Recorded events
What Temple of Bêl’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.
- 1922 CE Cumont's 1922 season of excavation, Dura-Europos ↗ Has references
- 1923 CE Cumont's 1923 season of excavation, Dura-Europos ↗ Has references
Also recorded, with no date on the statement
Connections
How Temple of Bêl connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Place 1
What this means
Where something is, or is documented. A location is not by itself evidence of activity.
Does not imply that the site as a whole was a place of worship · that its parts were in use at the same time · that these are all the places of worship it held
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.
9 statements on this record
- 8 Has references The statement cites something outside Wikimedia. That citation has not been checked here.
- 1 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- 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.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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