A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East

6 Chapter 15Figure 15.1 Australian aerial photography on the Palestine...Figure 15.2 A mosaic of Royal Air Force vertical photographs...Figure 15.3 Google Earth imagery allowing...Figure 15.4 Successive street grid extensions at Antioch...Figure 15.5 The Roman town at Umm el-Jimal...Figure 15.6 Yajuz seen in 1998 (above) when it...Figure 15.7 Umm er-Rasas, Jordan. The village...Figure 15.8 A Roman farm south of Madaba in Jordan...Figure 15.9 The late Roman legionary fortress at...Figure 15.10 Roads and tracks in Arabia. (A) The...Figure 15.11 Fossilized field boundaries. Although dating...Figure 15.12 Qanats. (A) An example southeast of the Roman...

7 Chapter 16Figure 16.1 Mosaic from Antioch (House of the Drinking...Figure 16.2 Mosaic from Zeugma (Gaziantep Museum)...Figure 16.3 Mosaic from Emesa (Maarret en-Noman Museum...Figure 16.4 Mosaic from Palmyra (in situ) of...Figure 16.5 Mosaic from Shahba-Philippopolis (Shahba Museum)...

8 Chapter 17Map of northern Syria. Courtesy of A...Figure 17.2 The colonnade at Apamea...

9 Chapter 18Figure 18.1 Plan of Gerasa, after A. Lichtenberger, R. Raja...Figure 18.2 The nymphaeum of Pella on the reverse...

10 Chapter 19Figure 19.1 Relief of Jupiter Dolichenus from...Figure 19.2 Statues on top of Nemrud Dağı...

11 Chapter 20Figure 20.1 Hippodrome at Tyre...Figure 20.2 Temple of Zeus at Baetocaece...

12 Chapter 21Figure 21.1 The courtyard of the great Roman sanctuary...

13 Chapter 22Figure 22.1 Qumran – caves where the Dead Sea...Figure 22.2 Herod’s harbor at Caesarea Maritima...Figure 22.3 View over Roman siege works surrounding...

14 Chapter 23Figure 23.1 The so-called Khazneh...Figure 23.2 The Monumental Gate and the so-called...

15 Chapter 24Figure 24.1 The central colonnade and the arch at Palmyra...Figure 24.2 The temple of Bel at Palmyra...

16 Chapter 25Figure 25.1 Plan of Dura-Europos, drawn by...Figure 25.2 View from the citadel of Dura-Europos...Figure 25.3 Head of Zeus Megistos from Dura-Europos...

17 Chapter 27Figure 27.1 The great iwans in the central temple...

18 Chapter 28Figure 28.1 Rock drawing with Safaitic inscription...

19 Chapter 30Figure 30.1 Roman roads in Syria and Mesopotamia...Figure 30.2 Roman roads in Judaea and...

20 Chapter 31Figure 31.1 Political map of the Roman...Figure 31.2 Petra, Qaṣr al-Bint and its temenos, view...Figure 31.3 Arsameia, hierothesion, relief slab...Figure 31.4 Herod Agrippa I...

21 Chapter 32Figure 32.1 Palmyrene relief of camels used by armed...

22 Chapter 36Figure 36.1 Tower-tombs at Palmyra. Two of the earliest...Figure 36.2 Necropolis at Tyre. The backsides of the tombs...

23 Chapter 37Figure 37.1 Eye-stele from Petra. Now in the...Figure 37.2 Madbah High Place, Petra...

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2 Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

3 Title page

4 Copyright

5 Dedication

6 Table of Contents

7 Preface

8 List of Figures

9 List of Maps

10 Contributor Biographies

11 Abbreviations

12 Maps

13 Begin Reading

14 Bibliography

15 Bibliography [Continues...]

16 Index

17 End User License Agreement

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