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Sergiopolis [Resafa]: Aerial photograph of the fortified town (1934)
Sergiopolis [Resafa] Byzantine fortiified town, viewed from northwest (Poidebard 1934, pl.75)
This aerial photo by Petit, published in 1934 by Antoine Poidebard, provides an oblique view from the northwest of the large fortified town at Resafa, known as Sergiopolis in the late Roman and Early Byzantine periods. The site is located along the Roman road called the Strata Diocletiana which contained a series of forts extending from southern Syria to the Euphrates River, and passed through Palmyra. Resafa is about 10 km south of the fort at Soura on the Euphrates, which marked the terminus of the Strata Diocletiana.
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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