The socio-economic history and material culture of the Roman and Byzantine Near East
Subtitle: essays in honor of S. Thomas Parker
By: edited by Walter D. Ward
Contributors: Parker, S. Thomas (Samuel Thomas), honouree
Series: Gorgias studies in classical and late antiquity -- 22; Gorgias studies in classical and late antiquity -- 22.
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Piscataway, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 391
ISBN-13: 9781463207014
Subjects: History; Civilization
Description: A collection of essays written in honour of S. Thomas Parker by his former students and colleagues. The essays focus on surveys, material and written culture, the economy, and the Roman military in the Near East.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Neolithic Period (ca. 9,700-4,900 BCE) Presence in the Southern Transjordan Plateau, the Southern Ghors, Wadis Fidan and Faynan, and the East Side of Wadi 'Arabah  -- Burton MacDonald; title: A Revaluation of Iron Age Fortified Sites on the Karak Plateau  -- Stephanie H. Brown; title: The roads leading to Zoara in the Roman and Byzantine Periods  -- Chaim Ben-David; title: An Assessment and Re-examination of the American Expedition in Petra Excavation in the Residential Area (Area I), 1974-1977: The Early House and Related Ceramic Assemblages  -- Tali Erickson-Gini & Christopher A. Tuttle; title: Exploring the Egyptian "Frog" Lamps Unearthed at the Red Sea Port of Roman Aila (Aqaba) and the Roman Fortress of Legio IV Martia at el-Lejjūn, Jordan  -- Eric C. Lapp; title: From Opaque to Transparent: Colorless Glass and the Byzantine Revolution in Interior Lighting  -- Janet Duncan Jones; title: A Nabataean Inscription from Bir Madkhur With an Excursus on Basileophoric Names and the Nabataean Dynastic Cult  -- David F. Graf & Andrew Smith II; title: Following the Roman Paymaster  -- John W. Betlyon; title: The Modular Planning of Roman Fortifications in the Near East: Principles and Process  -- John Peter Oleson; title: The Military Presence in Petra during the Roman-Byzantine Period  -- Zbigniew T. Fiema; title: The Economy of Caesarea Palaestinae in Late Antiquity: Structure and Scale  -- Kenneth G. Hollum; title: "So dearly do we pay for our luxury and our women": Women and the Margins of the Roman World  -- Elizabeth Ann Pollard; title: Human Population Increase and its Effects on the Arid Landscape of Southern Jordan: An Archaeobotanical Study -- Jennifer Ramsay.