Geography, Urbanisation and Settlement Patterns in the Roman Near East

Geography, Urbanisation and Settlement Patterns in the Roman Near East

MacAdam, Henry Innes

Taylor & Francis Ltd

11/2019

384

Mole

Inglês

9781138740495

15 a 20 dias

453

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Contents: Introduction; Cartography and cultural identity: Marinus of Tyre and scientific cartography: the Mediterranean, the Orient and Africa in early maps; Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy and the Tabula Peutingeriana: cultural geography and early maps of Phoenicia; Ptolemy's Geography and the Wadi Sirhan; Some Hellenistic toponyms of Phoenicia; Strabo, Pliny the Elder and Ptolemy of Alexandria: three views of ancient Arabia and its peoples; Cities, villages and rural settlements: Philadelphia (Amman, Jordan) in the classical period; Bostra Gloriosa; Cities, villages and veteran settlements: Roman administration of the Syrian Hawran; Settlements and settlement patterns in northern and central Transjordania, c.550-c.750; Some aspects of land tenure and social development in the Roman Near East: Arabia, Phoenicia and Syria; Epigraphy and the Notitia Dignitatum; Epigraphy and village life in southern Syria during the Roman and early Byzantine periods; Fragments of a Latin building inscription from Aqaba, Jordan; A note on the Usays (Jebal Says) inscription; Some notes on the Umayyad occupation of north-east Jordan; Index.
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Roman;Cartography;Geography;Byzantine