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Cover 1 Half Title 4 Dedication 5 Title 6 Copyright 7 Contents 8 Introduction 12 Acknowledgements 16 CARTOGRAPHY AND CULTURAL IDENTITY 18 I Marinus of Tyre and scientific cartography: the Mediterranean, the Orient and Africa in early maps 18 II Strabo, Pliny, Ptolemy and the Tabula Peutingeriana: cultural geography and early maps of Phoenicia 26 III Ptolemy's Geography and the Wadi Sirhan 60 IV Some Hellenistic toponyms of Phoenicia 82 V Strabo, Pliny the Elder and Ptolemy of Alexandria: three views of ancient Arabia and its peoples 86 CITIES, VILLAGES AND RURAL SETTLEMENTS 118 VI Philadelphia ('Ammān, Jordan) in the classical period 118 VII Bostra Gloriosa 180 VIII Cities, villages and veteran settlements: Roman administration of the Syrian Hawran 204 IX Settlements and settlement patterns in northern and central Transjordania, ca.550-ca. 750 216 X Some aspects of land tenure and social development in the Roman Near East: Arabia, Phoenicia and Syria 262 XI Epigraphy and the Notitia Dignitatum (Oriens 37) 280 XII Epigraphy and village life in southern Syria during the Roman and early Byzantine periods 296 XIII Fragments of a Latin building inscription from Aqaba, Jordan 310 XIV A n

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Author

Henry Innes MacAdam

Publisher

Routledge

Published

2017

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction