Hierapolis in Greek means "city of the sanctuary".Syrian Hierapolis was a centre of the worship of the Syrian goddess Atargatis. hence the Grek name.
Location:
- Syrian Arab Republic, Manbij
- geo:36.533333,37.950001
- Location ± 25-100 m.
Period or year:
- 3xx / unknown
Class:
- City
- invisible
Identifiers:
- vici:place=2367
- pleiades:place=658480
- omnesviae:id=TPPlace2439
Annotations
Relevant museums
Deir ez-Zor Museum
Deir ez-Zor, Archaeological Museum
Nearby
Aqueduct
https://www.academia.edu/1638553/The_Aqueducts_of_Hierapolis_Syria_New_Archaeological_Evidence
Qal'at Halwanji (13 km)
Qal'at Halwanji, ancient Dur-Shamshi-Adad, is an archaeological mound on the Western Euphrates river east of the modern city of Aleppo, Syria. The site is dating back to the Old Assyrian Empire period in the second millennium BC.
Caeciliana (17 km)
OmnesViae import TPPlace2583. Qal'at Najm- Kal`at Najm