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Le tétrapyle, troisième volet du projet #AssessingPalmyra 

Temps estimé de lecture : 4 min.

Le tétrapyle de Palmyre est un exemple magistral de la maîtrise architecturale romaine. Le monument est de forme carré, chaque coin étant composé d’un groupe de quatre colonnes. 

Image 1 : vue aérienne du tétrapyle. Photographie drone.  

Chaque groupe de colonnes supporte une corniche sculptée. Généralement, les tétrapyles avaient une entrée sur chaque coté de la structure: une configuration idéale pour être située aux carrefours des voies.

Image 2 : détail des colonnes du tétrapyle.

De fait, à Palmyre, nous retrouvons ce monument au point d’intersection entre la via pretoria et la via principalis, laquelle dans sa partie plus occidentale s’allongeait jusqu’au mur du temple d’Allat.

Image 3 : Vue du tétrapyle depuis une voie à colonnades

Les tétrapyles pouvaient avoir une structure simple ou plusieurs structures indépendantes. Par exemple, un autre tétrapyle très connu se trouve dans la ville de Jerash en Jordanie.

Image 4 : le tétrapyle de Jerash, Jordanie (II c BCE).

A Palmyre, le monument avait été restauré en1963 par la Direction Générale des Antiquités et des Musées. Ainsi, une seule de ses seize colonnes était originale. Le monument a été détruit en janvier 2017. Deux ensemble de colonnes sont complètement abattus et deux autres sévèrement endommagés.

Image 5 : photographie de drone prise en janvier 2017.

Grâce à la DGAM, Ionem s’est rendu sur le site avant et après les destructions, afin de collecter une énorme quantité de documentation visuelle.

Exploitant une solide documentation composée d’images au sol et d'images drones, nous avons commencé à construire le modèle 3D du tétrapyle pour montrer sa structure d’origine, documenter avec précision les altérations et sauver sa mémoire pour les générations futures..

Après le théâtre de Palmyre, le tétrapyle est un autre monument numérisé par Iconem pour suivre les objectifs du projet #AssessingPalmyra.

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Syria War: The Decisive Battle 1: Darayya & Aleppo

The Decisive Battle By The Syrian Army In Darayya & Aleppo, Syria PressTV documentaries 

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Plan B started many days ago to ship weapons to Syria.  Of course as they said sophisticated weapons, we all know that they have been provided by many missiles against armors like TOW and like MILAN and I think they will continue to provide the terrorists Al-Qaeda and especially the Free Syrian Army by missiles against armor like TOW and like MILAN which is French and DRAGON for example which came from Saudi Arabia and the Arab countries of course, the [Persian] Gulf countries, paid the price of those weapons.  We do estimate that they spent more than two billion dollars until today so far to provide weapons. Now we do not know what they are going to provide. I do believe that they will provide maybe for the first time air defense missiles like SAM-7 and Stinger because they believe that the Syrian regime has superiority in the air force and since they could not hit and strike the air force in Syria, they will provide and they started to provide the insurgents by Stingers and SAM-7.  We do not know the quantity yet. We do not know who is going to take those weapons. There is no guarantee that the extremist organizations like al-Nusra Al-Qaeda and similars will not take those weapons and I think if those weapons will be in the hands of those organizations, I am sure that bloc and America and its allies France and Britain, they will have problem with their public opinion. Now we have to see on the land what effect those weapons will have on the battles. Also we cannot deny that they started also to provide the insurgents by communication means, sophisticated communication means. Also maybe they will provide them by a system which can jam the communication of the Syrian armed forces.  All this in my opinion is very dangerous and they did not say, they said sophisticated weapons but we heard that many expressions were used like killer weapons. What killer weapons means?  So far I prefer to stay in sophisticated and classical weapons not something dangerous like chemical weapons or something.

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The Battle of Al Qusayr: Syria War Documentary

Provides an in-depth look into the al-Qusayr offensive , launched in 19 May 2013 by the Syrian Army, to capture the villages around the rebel-held town of al-Qusayr and ultimately the town itself PressTV documentaries 

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British Nationals Fight with al Qaeda in Syria

Yesterday, MI5 Director-General Andrew Parker announced that hundreds of British Muslims have travelled to Syria to take part in "terrorist tourism". Today, we present exclusive video footage and interviews with British nationals fighting with al Qaeda in Syria. In the film, two young men with British accents echo the sentiments expressed by Lee Rigby's killer Michael Adebolajo and declare jihad against the UK and United States. "I say to the United States that your time will come," says one of the men, who gives his age as 26, "and we will bleed you to death and, Inshallah, shall raise a flag in the White House." The second jihadist calls on the British public to rise up against the government: "Like the guy in Woolwich, he explained that David Cameron would never walk on the street, and he'll never get shot in the face, whereas you guys who are soldiers, or just normal folk, will take the blame for the crimes that are committed worldwide, by Britain itself, so we have to fight." The film also shines a light on the communication difficulties that arise when radicalised extremists from Britain, France, Chechnya, Bosnia, Kosovo and Turkey, among other countries, get together to fight on the front line.

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Publicado em 25/11/2013

The Syrian uprising is an ongoing internal conflict in Syria, a part of the wider Arab Spring, that began in January 2011. Public demonstrations first took place on 26 January 2011, but were only a sporadic occurrence until mass protests erupted in Damascus on 15 March.[48] The situation quickly developed into a full-scale nationwide uprising, with protesters demanding the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad and the overthrow of the government. The situation in Syria is part of the Arab Spring, a wave of social upheaval throughout the Arab World demanding greater political freedom and an end to autocracy. Inspired by the successful revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, Syrian protesters have employed the use of tactics such as marches, hunger strikes, rioting, and vandalism, in a sustained campaign of civil resistance aimed at ending nearly five decades of Ba'athist rule. The uprising was described as "unprecedented" by several political commentators