E-Book, Englisch, 433 Seiten
The Socio-economic History and Material Culture of the Roman and Byzantine Near East
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-4632-3773-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
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Essays in Honor of S. Thomas Parker
E-Book, Englisch, 433 Seiten
Reihe: Gorgias Studies in Classical and Late Antiquity
ISBN: 978-1-4632-3773-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Wasserzeichen (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
A collection of essays written in honour of S. Thomas Parker by his former students and colleagues. The essays focus on surveys, material and written culture, the economy, and the Roman military in the Near East.
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Introduction WALTER D. WARD (vii) S. Thomas Parker: Education, Archaeological Field Experience and Publications (xxi) Abbreviations (xli) Neolithic Period (ca. 9,700–4,900 BCE) Archaeological Survey Presence in the Southern Transjordan Plateau, the Southern Ghors, Wadis Fidan and Faynan, and the East Side of Wadi 'Arabah BURTON MACDONALD (3) A Revaluation of Iron Age Fortified Sites on the Karak Plateau STEPHANIE H. BROWN (35) The roads leading to Zoara in the Roman and Byzantine Periods CHAIM BEN-DAVID (63) Material and Written Culture An Assessment and Re-examination of the American Expedition in Petra Excavation in the Residential Area (Area I), 1974–1977: The Early House and Related Ceramic Assemblages TALI ERICKSON-GINI & CHRISTOPHER A. TUTTLE (91) Exploring the Egyptian “Frog” Lamps Unearthed at the Red Sea Port of Roman Aila (Aqaba) and the Roman Fortress of Legio IV Martia at el-Lejjun, Jordan ERIC C. LAPP (151) From Opaque to Transparent: Colorless Glass and the Byzantine Revolution in Interior Lighting JANET DUNCAN JONES (165) A Nabataean Inscription from Bir Madkhur With an Excursus on Basileophoric Names and the Nabataean Dynastic Cult DAVID F. GRAF & ANDREW SMITH II (185) Following the Roman Paymaster JOHN W. BETLYON (225) Military The Modular Planning of Roman Fortifications in the Near East: Principles and Process JOHN PETER OLESON (237) The Military Presence in Petra during the Roman-Byzantine
Period ZBIGNIEW T. FIEMA (273) Economy The Economy of Caesarea Palaestinae in Late Antiquity: Structure and Scale KENNETH G. HOLUM (291) “So dearly do we pay for our luxury and our women”: Women and the Margins of the Roman World ELIZABETH ANN POLLARD (327) Human Population Increase and its Effects on the Arid Landscape of Southern Jordan: An Archaeobotanical Study JENNIFER RAMSAY (349) Index (385)
