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Limes XVIII - Proceedings of the XVIIIth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies held in Amman, Jordan (September 2000): A conference held under the auspices of the Department of Antiquities of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, The Council for British Research in the Levant and the Department of Archaeology at the University of Liverpool

Philip Freeman, Julian Bennett, Zbigniew T. Fiema and Birgitta Hoffmann
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The much-anticipated, two-volume proceedings of the 18th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies held in Amman, Jordan (September 2000). The 100 papers published here represent approximately two-thirds of the presentations made at this importantevent. The 'limits' of the discussions encompass (Volume I): 'General Themes', 'The Eastern Frontier', 'Rome and Parthia', 'The Anatolian Provinces and the Black Sea Region', 'North Africa', 'The Germanies', 'Early Roman Germany', (Volume II) 'The Danubian and Balkan Provinces', 'Dacia', 'The Spains', 'Britain', 'The Roman Army, 'Roman Fortifications', 'Fleets and Frontiers', and 'Documents and Archives'.
  • Title Page: Volume 1
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Address by His Royal Highness Prince El Hassan bin Talal of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan at the 18th International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies
  • Opening ceremony in the Royal Cultural Centre, Amman, 2nd September 2000, in the presence of HRH Prince Hassan bin Talal and HRH Princess Sumaya a bintHassan
  • Jan Kees Haalebos
  • 18th Limes Congress, Amman 9th September, 2000
  • Contributors addresses
  • Fifty years of Roman frontier studies
  • The onset of crisis: the reign of the emperor Severus Alexander (AD 222- 235)
  • Bezüglich der Europäischen Wanderschaft der legio III Gallica zu Beginn des 3. Jh.
  • Why did the Roman empire cease to expand?
  • Mints and the Roman army from Augustus to Diocletian
  • Problems in the study of Roman and native
  • Die Legionen des Augustus. Probleme der römischen Heeresgeschichte nach dem Ende des Bürgerkrieges: Die Truppengeschichte Galatiens und Moesiens bis in Tiberische Zeit und das Problem der Legiones Quintae
  • The northern, southern and eastern frontiers and the climate c.AD200
  • Similarities and differences in the late Roman defense system on the European andeastern frontiers
  • The Roman frontier in Jordan: An overview
  • Galerius and the eastern frontier
  • Diocletian: Politics and limites in the Near East
  • The Zoar ascent - a newly discovered Roman road connecting Zoar-Safi and theMoabite plateau
  • Nabataean or Roman? Reconsidering the date of the camp at Avdatin light of recent excavations
  • The military presence in the countryside of Petra in the C6th
  • Limes Arabicus, via militaris and resource control in southern Jordan
  • Nomads and the Arabian frontier: the epigraphic perspective
  • A reused milestone from Imtan (southern Syria) – new evidence on the limes Arabicus in the second century AD
  • Le camp de la légion IIIa Cyrenaica à Bostra. Recherches récentes
  • 45 years of research on the limes Palaestinae – the findings and their assessment in the light of the criticisms raised (C1st – C4th)
  • Excavations at the Roman siege complex at Masada – 1995
  • Crossing the Rift Valley: the connecting arteries between the road networks of Judaea/Palaestina and Arabia
  • Lajjun – Legio in Israel: Results of a survey* in and around the military camp area
  • Road use in late antique Palestine
  • Roman military forts at Zeugma. A preliminary report
  • Preliminary report on the Roman period at Kamid el-Loz (Lebanon)
  • “. . . ostentasse Romana arma satis . . .” The military factor in Roman-Parthian relations under Augustus and Tiberius
  • The circumvallation at Hatra
  • Roman treaties with Parthia: Völkerrecht or power politics?
  • Die ‘Sklaven des Kaisers’ und der Kopf des Crassus. Römische Bilder des Ostens und parthische Bilder des Westens in augusteischer Zeit
  • The Cappadocian frontier: from the Julio-Claudians to Hadrian
  • Notes on the history of Seleuceia Sidēra in Pisidia (south-western Turkey):second preliminary report on the inscriptions
  • Gregorios Thaumaturgos und die pontischen Beutezüge der Boranen und Gotenim 3. Jh. n. Chr.
  • Excavation of a new Roman base near Balaklava in the Crimea (1992-1999)
  • Defensores Provinciae: the militarisation of frontier zone élites in C3rd Mauretania Caesariensis
  • The Roman empire’s southeastern-most frontier; recent discoveries at Berenike and environs (Eastern Desert of Egypt) 1998-2000
  • Merchants, pilgrims and soldiers on the Red Sea route
  • The eastern canabae legionis of the legio X Gemina on the Kops Plateau in Nijmegen (NL)
  • Holzfachwerkbauten im Kastellvicus von Wimpfen, Neckar-Odenwaldlimes: Topographie, Siedlungsstruktur, Nutzungszonen, Grundrisstypen sowie belegbare Nutzungen
  • Die Früheste Belegung des Hunerberges in Nijmegen
  • Reduktion von numerus- und Kleinkastellen des obergermanischen Limes im 3. Jahrhundert
  • Das Kölner Rheinufer im ersten und zweiten Jahrhundert n. Chr.
  • Die spätaugusteische Siedlung in Lahnau-Waldgirmes - Zusammenfassende Bemerkungen zum Stand der Fundauswertung
  • Recent developments in south-west Germany (eastern Germania Superior - western Raetia)
  • The late Roman fort at the Valkhof in Nijmegen. Nijmegen at the transition from the Roman period to the middle ages
  • Die Ausgrabungen in Lahnau-Waldgirmes
  • Timber baths in Augustan and Tiberian fortresses
  • Early Roman military activity on the Frisian coast
  • Zur Datierung der frühkaiserzeitlichen Militärlager von Novaesium (Neuss)
  • Das Legionslager von Vindonissa: Neue Forschungen zur Frühzeit
  • Kalkriese und die Varusschlacht – Archäologische Nachweise einer militärischen Auseinandersetzung zwischen Römern und Germanen
  • Neue Grabungen in Haltern, Oberaden und Anreppen
  • Title Page: Volume II
  • Copyright
  • List of Contents
  • Neue Forschungsergebnisse zu Truppenlagern und ländlichen Siedlungen an der Donau und im raetischen Limesgebiet
  • The Flavian timber fort at Eining (Abusina) on the Upper Danube
  • Neue Befunde zur Spätlatène - und frühen Kaiserzeit in Augsburg
  • Neue Grabungen im Vicus des Auxiliarkastells Favianis (Noricum) – ein Handwerksbezirk im östlichen Kastellvicus
  • Vindobona – legionary fortress, canabae legionis and necropolis
  • Vindobona – the Roman civil settlement at Vienna (poster-presentation)
  • Die Ausgrabungen am Michaelerplatz – ein Bereich dercanabae legionis von Vindobona
  • Legionslager an der Wende zur Spätantike – Ein Überblick zu Carnuntum und vergleichbaren kaiserzeitlichen Standlagern des Rhein-Donau-Raumes in einer Periode des Umbruchs
  • The history and perspectives of the research of the Csörsz Ditch (‘Limes Sarmatiae’)
  • Decorated lead sarcophagi in Moesia Superior
  • Artillery troops detached north of the lower Danube in the late Roman period
  • The Roman legionary bath from the C2nd AD in Novae (Moesia Inferior)
  • Iatrus - spätantikes Kastell oder befestigte Zivilsiedlung am Unterdonaulimes?
  • Archaeological survey on the Roman frontier on the lower Danube between Novae and Sexaginta Prista. Preliminary report (1997-2000)
  • Remarks on supply of the Roman army from the point of view of the valetudinarium at Novae (Moesia Inferior)
  • Some remarks about the Roman and early Byzantine pottery from Novae (Moesia Inferior)
  • Was there a militarisation of the southern Balkans during late antiquity?
  • Tilurium, Burnum and Bigeste. A new contribution to the dating of the Delmataen limes
  • Monetary circulation and the abandonment of the auxiliary forts in Roman Dacia
  • Deserted forts – the Moesian limes after the conquest of Dacia
  • The military equipment of oriental archers in Roman Dacia
  • Die römischen Lager bei Renieblas, Prov. Soria (Spanien). Ergebnisse der Vermessungskampagnen 1997-2000
  • Twenty years of Roman military archaeology in Spain
  • The legionary fortress of VI Victrix at León (Spain). The new evidence (1995-2000)
  • Les castra et les castella aux extrémités de l’Empire après la fin de la dominationromaine: le Nord-ouest Ibérique et le Haut Rhin au Ve. siècle
  • New intervention in the surroundings of the gate of the Roman wall of Gijón (10 Recoletas Street)
  • The material culture of Hadrian’s Wall
  • A revised programme and chronology for the building of Hadrian’s Wall
  • Recent research on Roman camps in Wales
  • Supplying the frontier zones: the rôle of the East Anglian Fens
  • Research and development in the Birdoswald sector of Hadrian’s Wall 1949-1999
  • Cawthorn Camps – 70 years after Richmond
  • The Roman Gask frontier: 1997-2000
  • The timing of marriage in the Roman army
  • The Roman auxilia in the east – different from the west ?1
  • Ditches for defence: towards a study of multiple fort ditches
  • ‘Where did they put the horses?’ revisited: the recent discovery of cavalry barracks in the Roman forts at Wallsend and South Shields on Hadrian’s Wall
  • The rampart buildings of Roman legionary fortresses
  • Native pottery, food packaging and the supply lines of the German fleet (Classis Germanica)
  • Neue Grabungen an der Westseite des römischen Flottenlagers Köln - Alteburg
  • Recent research on the fortifications of the headquarters of the classis Germanica: Cologne-Marienburg (Alteburg)
  • Now you see it, now you don’t. The British fleet in Vegetius IV.37
  • The Roman army in the Vindolanda Tablets
  • Food as substance and symbol in the Roman army: a case study from Vindolanda
  • Vespasianvs Velageno
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Published: 2002
Publisher: BAR Publishing
ISBN(s)
  • 9781407324784 (ebook)
  • 9781841714653 (paperback)
BAR Number: S1084
Subject
  • Africa
  • Arabia
  • Levant / Near East
  • Mediterranean
  • Late Antiquity and Byzantium
  • Central and Eastern Europe
  • Conflict / Military / Fortifications
  • Western Europe and Britain
  • Roman
  • Identity / Gender / Childhood / Ethnicity / Romanization
  • Trade / Exchange / Travel / Economy
  • British Isles
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