Identities in the eastern Mediterranean in antiquity
Subtitle: proceedings of a conference held at the Humanitites Research Centre in Canberra 10-12 November, 1997
By: [introduction by G.W. Clarke.].
Contributors: University of Sydney. Department of Archaeology
Series: Mediterranean archaeology -- v. 11
Publisher: Dept. of Archaeology, University of Sydney
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Sydney
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Archaeology; Congresses; Antiquities; Classical antiquities; Excavations (Archaeology)
Notes: Selected papers from a conference held Nov. 1997 at the Humanities Research Centre of the Australian National University in Canberra.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Three faces of identity: ethnicity, community, and status in the Cypriot Bronze Age / David Frankel and Jennifer M. Webb; title: Social identity and religious ritual in the Kura-Araxes cultural complex: some observations from Sos Höyük / Antonio Sagona; title: Identities in the east Arabian region / D.T. Potts with assistance from S. Blau; title: The identity of Roman Gerasa: an archaeological approach / David Kennedy; title: The forging of Christian identity / Judith M. Lieu; title: Who built Shash Hamdan Tomb 1? / G.W. Clarke, B. Frohlich, H. Jackson, J. Littleton, B. Rowney, and D. Steele, with an Appendix by G. Bailey, D. Garton and T. Jackson; title: Ethnic identity in the Roman Near East, AD 325-450: language, religion and culture / Fergus G.B. Millar; title: Some reflections on epigraphy and ethnicity in the Roman Near East / M.C.A. Macdonald; title: The last of the Romans: Roman identity and the Roman army in the late Roman Near East / Peter M. Brennan; title: The self-identity of the Manichaeans in the Roman East / Samuel N.C. Lieu; title: The identity of the Ascetic Master in the Historia religiosa of Theodoret of Cyrrhus: a new Paideia? / Philip Rousseau; title: The identity of sixth-century preachers and audiences in Byzantium / Pauline Allen; title: Identity and self-image in Syria-Palestine in the transition from Byzantine to early Islamic rule: Arab Christians and Muslims / Ahmad Shboul and Alan Walmsley; title: Abstracts; title: Addresses of contributors to Meditarch vol. 11.