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Record W6893002268 · doi:10.5281/zenodo.12574090

Dura Europos Mithraeum

2024· article· en· W6893002268 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) · 2024
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEurasian Exchange Networks
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSiegeCONQUESTSettlement (finance)FrontierCult

Abstract

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The site of Dura Europos was built along the banks of the Euphrates river in present-day Syria. Founded as a fortified settlement in 300 BCE by the Hellenistic king, Seleukos Nikator, at a strategic location in a frontier region. It grew to develop a Hippodameian town plan (orthogonal city blocks) and strong fortification walls and gates. It was conquered by the Parthians in 113 BCE, the Romans in the 2nd c. CE, and destroyed by the Sasanids in 256 CE. Whether the city was completely abandoned after this siege is debated. Dura was a very multicultural city from its foundation as its various rulers tolerated a vast multiplicity of cultures, ethnicities, languages, and religious traditions. There were many cults from different cultures present in the city co-existing throughout its existence: Parthian, Semitic, Greek, Roman, Jewish, Christian--and hybrid manifestations of these various religious traditions. The second Roman conquest of Dura under Lucius Verus coincided with the introduction of the cult of Mithras to the city. A mithraeum (temple to Mithras) was built by Imperial troops in 168 CE in a room at a private house along the NW fortifications of the city. It was renovated and enlarged around 209 and ultimately destroyed in 256 when the space was filled in to strengthen the fortification walls for the impending Sasanid siege. The mithraeum was excavated from 1934-1935 by the joint Yale-French team excavating the city. The mithraeum was afterwards dismantled and transported to the Yale University Art Gallery.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Scholarly communication, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.973
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0030.000
Scholarly communication0.0020.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0270.029

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.043
GPT teacher head0.297
Teacher spread0.253 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it