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Surroundings:

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Location:

  • Syrian Arab Republic, Buşrá ash Shām
  • geo:32.519417,36.483078
  • Location ± 25-100 m.

Period or year:

  • -13xx /

Class:

  • City
  • invisible

Annotations

Then name of Bosra appeared in the royal correspondence between the Pharaohs and the Phoenician and Amorite kings i. e. in Tell el-Amarna tablets in Egypt, which date from the 14th century B.C.

See:

  1. http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&id_site=22
  2. Immanuel Benzinger: Bostra. In: Paulys Realencyclopädie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (RE). Band III,1, Stuttgart 1897, col. 789–791
  3. Maurice Sartre: Bostra. In: Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum. Supplementband 2, Lieferung 9. Hiersemann, Stuttgart 2002, col.. 98–149
  4. https://www.bosracity.com/pages/history.htm

Relevant museums

Paris, Louvre

Paris, Louvre


Nearby

Sanctuary of Kalybe, Bosra

Kalybe - cradle of the King's Daughter.

Cardo Maximus, Bosra

The north-south oriented main street.

Bosra, Church III

Church No 3 at Bosra.


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