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The funerary tower is a monument with three floors superimposed on a declining basis. It was built with rectangular blocks. In the intermediate body, are two reliefs of the god
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It was built during the 1st century AD, six kilometers from the city of
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Its name goes back to a misidentification of the two reliefs of the god
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