Eastern section from the Peutinger...
2 Chapter 10Figure 10.1 Distribution of the scripts of the oases...
3 Chapter 12Figure 12.1 Bottom part of gigantic marble...Figure 12.2 Painted synagogue from Dura-Europos...Figure 12.3 Basalt lintel from Suweida in the...Figure 12.4 Funerary relief from Palmyra, now...
4 Chapter 13Figure 13.1 Colonnaded main street in Apamea...Figure 13.2 Capital from the Sanctuary of Artemis...Figure 13.3 The Sanctuary of Artemis in Gerasa...Figure 13.4 Temple A in Niha...
5 Chapter 14Figure 14.1A Silver stater of Aradus, fourth century...Figure 14.1B Athenian tetradrachm or Syrian imitation of one, fourth century...Figure 14.1C Copper-alloy coin of Alexander the Great...Figure 14.1D Silver tetradrachm in the name of Alexander the Great...Figure 14.2A Silver tetradrachm of Aradus...Figure 14.2B Silver drachm of Aradus...Figure 14.2C Silver tetradrachm of Ptolemy...Figure 14.2D Silver tetradrachm of Antiochus...Figure 14.3A Copper-alloy coin of the Seleucid...Figure 14.3B Silver tetradrachm with the portrait...Figure 14.3C Silver tetradrachm minted at Antioch...Figure 14.3D Silver tetradrachm of Augustus...Figure 14.4A Silver tetradrachm of Nero...Figure 14.4B Silver denarius of Septimius Severus...Figure 14.4C Silver “radiate”...Figure 14.4D Silver tetradrachm of Philip...Figure 14.4E Base silver tetradrachm of the...Figure 14.5A Radiate of the eastern usurper Quietus...Figure 14.5B Radiate of Maximianus...Figure 14.5C Post-reform radiate of Constantius...Figure 14.5D Copper-alloy coin of Nerva...Figure 14.5E Copper-alloy coin of Elagabalus...Figure 14.5F Copper-alloy coin minted in...Figure 14.6A Silver tetradrachm minted at Aradus...Figure 14.6B Silver tetradrachm minted at Tyre...Figure 14.6C Copper-alloy coin of Antiochus...Figure 14.6D Copper-alloy coin of Ptolemy...Figure 14.7A Copper-alloy coin of Sidon...Figure 14.7B Silver drachm of the Nabatean...Figure 14.7C Copper-alloy coin of Trajan...Figure 14.7D Copper-alloy coin of Macrinus...Figure 14.8A Copper-alloy coin of Macrinus...Figure 14.8B Copper-alloy coin of Severus Alexander...Figure 14.8C Copper-alloy coin of Antoninus Pius...Figure 14.8D Copper-alloy coin of Valerian...Figure 14.9A Copper-alloy coin of the joint...Figure 14.9B Copper-alloy coin of Gallienus...Figure 14.9C Copper-alloy coin of the early fourth...Figure 14.9D Copper-alloy coin of Justin...
6 Chapter 15Figure 15.1 Australian aerial photography on the Palestine...Figure 15.2 A mosaic of Royal Air Force vertical photographs...Figure 15.3 Google Earth imagery allowing...Figure 15.4 Successive street grid extensions at Antioch...Figure 15.5 The Roman town at Umm el-Jimal...Figure 15.6 Yajuz seen in 1998 (above) when it...Figure 15.7 Umm er-Rasas, Jordan. The village...Figure 15.8 A Roman farm south of Madaba in Jordan...Figure 15.9 The late Roman legionary fortress at...Figure 15.10 Roads and tracks in Arabia. (A) The...Figure 15.11 Fossilized field boundaries. Although dating...Figure 15.12 Qanats. (A) An example southeast of the Roman...
7 Chapter 16Figure 16.1 Mosaic from Antioch (House of the Drinking...Figure 16.2 Mosaic from Zeugma (Gaziantep Museum)...Figure 16.3 Mosaic from Emesa (Maarret en-Noman Museum...Figure 16.4 Mosaic from Palmyra (in situ) of...Figure 16.5 Mosaic from Shahba-Philippopolis (Shahba Museum)...
8 Chapter 17Map of northern Syria. Courtesy of A...Figure 17.2 The colonnade at Apamea...
9 Chapter 18Figure 18.1 Plan of Gerasa, after A. Lichtenberger, R. Raja...Figure 18.2 The nymphaeum of Pella on the reverse...
10 Chapter 19Figure 19.1 Relief of Jupiter Dolichenus from...Figure 19.2 Statues on top of Nemrud Dağı...
11 Chapter 20Figure 20.1 Hippodrome at Tyre...Figure 20.2 Temple of Zeus at Baetocaece...
12 Chapter 21Figure 21.1 The courtyard of the great Roman sanctuary...
13 Chapter 22Figure 22.1 Qumran – caves where the Dead Sea...Figure 22.2 Herod’s harbor at Caesarea Maritima...Figure 22.3 View over Roman siege works surrounding...
14 Chapter 23Figure 23.1 The so-called Khazneh...Figure 23.2 The Monumental Gate and the so-called...
15 Chapter 24Figure 24.1 The central colonnade and the arch at Palmyra...Figure 24.2 The temple of Bel at Palmyra...
16 Chapter 25Figure 25.1 Plan of Dura-Europos, drawn by...Figure 25.2 View from the citadel of Dura-Europos...Figure 25.3 Head of Zeus Megistos from Dura-Europos...
17 Chapter 27Figure 27.1 The great iwans in the central temple...
18 Chapter 28Figure 28.1 Rock drawing with Safaitic inscription...
19 Chapter 30Figure 30.1 Roman roads in Syria and Mesopotamia...Figure 30.2 Roman roads in Judaea and...
20 Chapter 31Figure 31.1 Political map of the Roman...Figure 31.2 Petra, Qaṣr al-Bint and its temenos, view...Figure 31.3 Arsameia, hierothesion, relief slab...Figure 31.4 Herod Agrippa I...
21 Chapter 32Figure 32.1 Palmyrene relief of camels used by armed...
22 Chapter 36Figure 36.1 Tower-tombs at Palmyra. Two of the earliest...Figure 36.2 Necropolis at Tyre. The backsides of the tombs...
23 Chapter 37Figure 37.1 Eye-stele from Petra. Now in the...Figure 37.2 Madbah High Place, Petra...
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14 Bibliography
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