Synopses & Reviews
Papers from a colloquium held at Potenza, Acerenza and Matera, Italy (May 2005), entitled The Late Roman Army in the Near East from Diocletian to the Arab Conquest. Contents: 1) Prolegomeni ad un congresso: considerazioni sullAeesercito romano dellAealto Impero (Giovanni Brizzi); 2) LAearmee romaine en mer Rouge et autour de la mer Rouge aux IIeme et IIIeme siecles apr. J. C.: a propos de deux inscriptions latines decouvertes sur lAearchipel Farasan (Francois Villeneuve); 3) New Light on the Roman Military Base at Dura-Europos: Interim Report on a Pilot Season of Fieldwork in 2005 (Simon James); 4) From Praepositus Pretenturae to Dux Ripae.The Roman aeGrand StrategyAe on the Middle Euphrates (2nd - 3rd Cent. AD) (Tommaso Gnoli); 5) The Roman Legionary Camp at Legio, Israel: Results of an Archaeological Survey and Observations on the Roman Military Presence at the Site (Yotam Tepper); 6) The development of the Roman forces in northeastern Anatolia. New evidence for the history of the exercitus appadocicus (Michael A. Speidel); 7) The Nabataeaan - Roman Negev in the Third Century CE (Tali Erickson-Gini); 8) The Paved Road from Petra to the aeArabah - Commercial Nabataean or Military Roman? (Chaim Ben-David); 9) BeAeer Shema - Birsama of the Notitia Dignitatum: A Prolegomenon to the 2006 Excavations (Benjamin J. Dolinka); 10) Crossing the Negev in Late Roman Times: the Administrative development of Palaestina Tertia Salutaris and of its Imperial Road Network (Israel Roll); 11) From the Constructive Technique Used in the Military Architecture of the Limes Arabicus to its Conservation and Valorisation (Giuseppe Claudio Infranca); 12) Military Architecture of the Limes Arabicus: Strategy, Commercial Routes, Quotidian Life (Maysoun Al-Khouri); 13) Economic Conditions, Security Problems and the Deployment of the Army in Later Roman Palestine. Part I: Economy and Population (Israel Shatzman); 14) Fluctuating Provincial Borders in Mid-4th Century Arabia and Palestine (Joonas Sipila); 15) Zosimos II.34.1 and aeThe Constantinian ReformAe: Using Johannes Lydos to Expose an Insidious Fabrication (Peter Brennan); 16) Two Sieges of Amida (AD 359 and 502-503) and the Experience of Combat in the Late Roman Near East (Noel Lenski); 17) Naval Operations During Persian Expedition of Emperor Julian (363 AD) (Edward Dabrowa); 18) aeAmr Ibn aeAdi, Mavia, the Phylarchs and the Late Roman Army: Peace and War in the Near East (Ariel S. Lewin); 19) L'armee romaine et la defense de la Syrie du Sud. Questions de methode et nouveau document (Maurice Sartre); 20) Central power, local administration, and nomadic environment in Roman Arabia (1st - 3rd Century) (Thomas Brgemann); 21) Moines, militaires et defense de la frontiere orientale au VIe s. (Geoffrey Greatrex); 22)Archaeological and Ancient Literary Evidence for a Battle near Dara Gap, Turkey, AD 530: Topography, Texts and Trenches (Christopher Lillington-Martin); 23) The Byzantine Military in the Petra Papyri - a Summary (Zbigniew T. Fiema); 24) The Operational Methods of the Late Roman Army in the Persian War of 572-591 (Frank R. Trombley); 25) Una guarnigione bizantina a Roma nellAeeta di Gregorio Magno: i Theodosiaci (Pietrina Pellegrini); 26) Jews, Rats, and the Battle of Yarmuk (David Woods); 27) Cavalry in Late Roman Warfare (Hugh Elton); 28) Centuriones ordinarii et ducenarii dans lAearmee romaine tardive (IIIe -VIe s. apr. J.-C. (Sylvain Janniard); 29) Campidoctores Vicarii vel Tribuni: The Senior Regimental Officers of the Late Roman Army and the Rise of the Campidoctor (P. Rance); 30) From the Late Roman to the Early Byzantine Army. Two Aspects of Change (Oliver Schmitt); 31) LAeoccupation militaire tardive dans les oasis dAeEgypte. LAeexemple de Douch (M. Redde); 32) LAearmee romaine dAeAfrique de 375 a 439: Mythes et realites (Yann Le Bohec).
Synopsis
Proceedings of a colloquium held at Potenza, Acerenza and Matera, Italy (May 2005)
This book includes papers from a colloquium held at Potenza, Acerenza and Matera, Italy (May 2005), entitled The Late Roman Army in the Near East from Diocletian to the Arab Conquest.
Edited by Ariel S. Lewin and Pietrina Pellegrini with the aid of Zbigniew T. Fiema and Sylvain Janniard