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Soura [Souriya] fort: Aerial photograph by Poidebard (1934)
Soura [Souriya] Roman fort, viewed from northwest (Poidebard 1934, pl.79)
This aerial photo by Aero Levant, published in 1934 by Antoine Poidebard, provides an oblique view from the northwest of the Roman fort at Soura, located on the eastern (left) bank the Euphrates River at the modern town of Souriya. Soura lay at the northern end of the Strata Diocletiana, the string of forts constituting the Roman limes or frontier in Syria in the 3rd-4th centuries AD.
The pioneering aerial photos by Poidebard and his colleagues documenting Roman sites in Syria were published in the 1934 volume entitled La Trace de Rome dans la Desert de Syrie: Le Limes de Trajan a la Conquete Arabe; Recherches Aeriennes (1925-1932).
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