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Temple in Block X7
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❔ Cause unknown

Temple in Block X7

Ruins · Syria

Abandoned
256
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
34.751, 40.729
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Why it was abandoned

❔ Cause unknown

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History

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. The remains of the temple were excavated in 1935/36, but results were never fully published.

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