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episode B 42 Yotapian.

The site is an easily defensible one on a plateau overlooking the Euphrates.

Protected by the river escarpment on one side and deep gorges on two others.

The fourth side, facing the open desert, is defended by impressive ramparts.

It was laid out with the regular trappings of a Macedonian military encampment. A street plan following a strict grid pattern dominated in the center by an open agora surrounded by

commercial buildings on one side and temples to the south. This description

of Dura Europos is given by Warwick Ball.

Richard Stoneman also notes that in the narrow confines of its walls one could find within a stone throw of each other, a synagogue,

a Christian baptistry, and temples of Artemis, of the Palmyrene gods, of Mithras, of Zeus-Balshamen, of Bell, and of the Godi or fortunes of the city.

Even considering the neighborhood, Dura Eropos was pretty eclectic.

In 159, a wealthy merchant living in Dura commissioned a relief with inscription. His name was Hyron, son of Malico, son of Nassau, and he hailed from the city of Palmyra.

This era saw the Zenith of Palmyra in Trade, and

Hiron may have run the local trade colony.

Hiron's son, Wabaloth Nasser, named his own son, Hiran.

And it was this Hiron who, in the late second century, was granted Roman citizenship by Septimius Severus, possibly for some

service during one of his campaigns. And it was Hyron, now Septimius Hyron, who around 220 AD fathered a son named Septimius Odinothus.

Odinothus's real name, Udainoth was Arabic for Little Ear, while his fathers and grandfather's

names were Aramaic. And though it's possible to connect the dots of his lineage his

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