Reframing the "Desert Frontier" : studies in the Ancient Near East and Northern Arabia in honour of David Kennedy

Weitere Verfasser: Repper, Rebecca , [HerausgeberIn]
Bishop, M. C. , [HerausgeberIn]
Bewley, Robert , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2025
Umfang/Format: 511 pages
Schriftenreihe: Adapa Monographs.
ISBN: 9781743329955
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Intro
  • Half title page
  • Title page
  • Foreword
  • 1 Introduction
  • Part 1 Revisiting the Roman record
  • 2 The identity of Roman Isauria
  • 3 Freedmen in Roman Hegra
  • 4 Every cloud has a silver lining
  • 5 Unmasking Roman Pella
  • 6 Brünnow and Domaszewski's Die Provincia Arabia (1904-09)
  • Part 2 Reframing the record
  • 7 An early archaeological landscape map of the Azraq lava fields
  • 8 Origins, legacy and recent developments in aerial archaeology in the Middle East
  • 10 Gottlieb Schumacher and Pella
  • 11 From survey to further research
  • 12 Early visitors to the site of Ḥumayma
  • Part 3 Hinterland studies
  • 13 Changes in settlement patterns in the territory of Gerasa (Jarash)
  • 14 Vignettes of sprawling townships of Roman Gerasa revealed by pottery clusters from the periphery
  • 15 Private estates or private villages?
  • 16 The archaeology of the Safa region, southern Syria
  • 17 Al-Bādiyah landscapes in fifth-to tenth-century Jordan
  • Part 4 Sky, sand and basalt
  • 18 Understanding Ḥumayma from aerial photographs
  • 19 Field survey and aerial reconnaissance
  • 20 The multifaceted site of Wisād Pools, Black Desert
  • 21 The AAKSA Project
  • Index
  • Blank Page