Overview
This is an updated and revised second edition of a handbook originally prepared for the XVIIIth International Congress of Roman Frontier Studies in Amman, Jordan in 2000 - a reflection of the growing importance of Roman studies in Jordan in recent years. In Part A, there are chapters on Roman Jordan, the evidence for the army there, geography and environment, the Romans in Jordan and the Roman army there. In Part B there are 15 chapters surveying, region by region, the evidence of forts, towers, roads, literary texts, inscriptions and excavation, around the entire country and ending with a chapter on the immediately adjacent parts of Roman Arabia that now lie in Syria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel. The book is profusely illustrated throughout and has many aerial views including 20 full-page photographs in colour.Synopsis
Kennedy (classics and ancient history, U. of Western Australia) includes results from the Limes Congress of 2002 and new fieldwork in this second edition of his handbook. He gives an introduction to research about Roman Jordan, including a brief history of explorations and resources, evidence and methodologies of research, the geography and environment, and a summary of the history of the Romans and Roman army in the region. He includes precise descriptions, sketches, aerial and close-up color and monochrome photographs, inscriptions and plans for 13 sites in Jordan and others nearby. Finally, he gives a comprehensive bibliography of works from the ancient to the recent. Distributed in the US by the David Brown Book Company. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR