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Title

The late Roman Army in the Near East from Diocletian to the Arab Conquest : proceedings of a colloquium held at Potenza, Acerenza and Matera, Italy / May 2005) / edited by Ariel S. Lewin, Pietrina Pellegrini ; with the aid of Zbigniew T. Fiema and Sylvain Janniard.

Publication

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Lewin, Ariel.
• Pellegrini, Pietrina.
• Fiema, Zbigniew T.
• Janniard, Sylvain.

Description

iv, 441 pages : illustrations, maps; 30 cm.

Series Statement

BAR international series ; 1717

Uniform Title

BAR international series ; 1717.

Subjects

• Diocletian
• Rome > History, Military
• Rome > Army
• Arab conquest
• Late Roman Empire

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Text in English and French.

Contents

SECOND TO THIRD CENTURY: Prolegomeni ad un congresso: considerazioni sull'esercito romano dell'alto Impero / Giovanni Brizzi -- L'armée romaine en mer Rouge et autour de la mer Rouge aux IIème et IIIème siècles apr. J.C.: à propos de deux inscriptions latines découvertes sur l'archipel Farasan / Francois Villeneuve -- New Light on the Roman military base at Dura-Europos: interim report on a pilot season of fieldwork in 2005 / Simon James -- From Praepositus Pretenturae to Dux Ripae.the Roman 'grand strategy' on the Middle Euphrates (2nd - 3rd cent. AD) / Tommaso Gnoli -- The Roman legionary camp at Legio, Israel: results of an archaeological survey and observations on the Roman military presence at the site / Yotam Tepper -- The development of the Roman forces in northeastern Anatolia. New evidence for the history of the exercitus appadocicus / Michael A. Speidel -- LATE THIRD TO SEVENTH CENTURY. The Nabataeaan - Roman Negev in the third century CE / Tali Erickson-Gini -- The Paved Road from Petra to the ʹArabah: commercial Nabataean or military Roman? / Chaim Ben-David -- Beʼer Shema: Birsama of the Notitia Dignitatum: a prolegomenon to the 2006 excavations / Benjamin J. Dolinka -- Crossing the Negev in late Roman times: the administrative development of Palaestina Tertia Salutaris and of its imperial road network / Israel Roll -- From the constructive technique used in the military architecture of the Limes Arabicus to its conservation and valorisation / Giuseppe Claudio Infranca -- Military architecture of the Limes Arabicus: strategy, commercial routes, Quotidian life / Maysoun Al-Khouri -- Economic conditions, security problems and the deployment of the army in later Roman Palestine. Part I: Economy and population / Israel Shatzman -- Fluctuating provincial borders in mid-4th Century Arabia and Palestine / Joonas Sipilä -- Zosimos II. 34.1 and 'The Constantinian Reform': using Johannes Lydos to expose an insidious fabrication / Peter Brennan -- Two sieges of Amida (AD 359 and 502-503) and the experience of combat in the late Roman Near East / Noel Lenski -- Naval operations during Persian expedition of Emperor Julian (363 AD) / Edward Dąbrowa -- ʹAmr Ibn ʹAdī, Mavia, the Phylarchs and the late Roman Army: peace and war in the Near East / Ariel S. Lewin -- L'armée romaine et la défense de la Syrie du Sud. Questions de méthode et nouveau document / Maurice Sartre -- Central power, local administration, and nomadic environment in Roman Arabia (1st - 3rd century) / Thomas Brüggemann -- Moines, militaires et défense de la frontière orientale au VIe s. / Geoffrey Greatrex -- Archaeological and ancient literary evidence for a battle near Dara Gap, Turkey, AD 530: topography, texts and trenches / Christopher Lillington-Martin -- The Byzantine military in the Petra papyri - a summary / Zbigniew T. Fiema -- The operational methods of the late Roman army in the Persian War of 572-591 / Frank R. Trombley -- Una guarnigione bizantina a Roma nell'etá di Gregorio Magno: i Theodosiaci / Pietrina Pellegrini -- Jews, Rats, and the Battle of Yarmūk / David Woods -- THE ORGANIZATION OF THE ARMY. Cavalry in late Roman warfare / Hugh Elton -- 28) Centuriones ordinarii et ducenarii dans l'armée romaine tardive (IIIe -VIe s. apr. J.-C.) / Sylvain Janniard -- Campidoctores Vicarii vel Tribuni: the senior regimental officers of the late Roman army and the rise of the Campidoctor / P. Rance -- From the late Roman to the early Byzantine army. Two aspects of change / Oliver Schmitt -- EGYPT. L'occupation militaire tardive dans les oasis d'Égypte. L'exemple de Douch / M. Reddé -- L'armée romaine d'Afrique de 375 à 439: Mythes et réalités / Yann Le Bohec.

ISBN

• 1407301616
• 9781407301617

LCCN

2008353923

OCLC

• ocn190392986
• SCSB-5390669

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries