Ancient Syria : a three thousand year history /
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Syria has long been one of the most trouble-prone and politically volatile regions of the Near and Middle Eastern world. This book looks back beyond the troubles of the present to tell the 3000-year story of what came before: the peoples, cities, and kingdoms that arose, flourished, declined, and disappeared in the lands that now constitute Syria, from the time of the region's earliest written records in the third millennium BC, right through the reign of the Roman emperor Diocletian in the early 4th century AD.
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xiv, 379 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9780199646678 :
shimaa
Atlas of the ancient Near East : from prehistoric times to the Roman imperial period /
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Relief shown by shading. :
1 atlas (xvii, 318 pages) : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm :
Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-296) and index. :
9780415508018
0415508010
9780415508001
0415508002
Images and monuments of near eastern dynasts, 100 BC-AD 100 /
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This book is an archaeological and art-historical study of the images and monuments of Roman 'client' kings in the Near East from the Taurus to Edom (modern South East Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, and Jordan) in the important transitional period between the downfall of the Seleucid empire and Rome's establishment of provincial administration across the entire region. In this volume, Kropp treats royal portraits, tombs, palaces, coins, and temples as historical documents and aims at uncovering royal identities and ideological aspirations. In particular, he focuses on the six major players: the Kommagenian, Emesan, Ituraean, Nabataean, Hasmonaean, and Herodian dynasties.
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Revised and expanded version of author's thesis (D.Phil) -- University of Oxford, 2007. :
xx, 497 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 26 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references and index. :
9780199670727 :
Hadeer