{"id":71,"date":"2008-05-22T11:02:36","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T16:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/rome\/2008\/05\/22\/syria\/"},"modified":"2018-08-11T14:40:44","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T19:40:44","slug":"syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/rome\/2008\/05\/22\/syria\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Syria<\/a>
\nBrief history of the province excerpted from UNRV History- Roman Empire.<\/p>\n

Rome’s Desert Frontier: Chapter One: Physical and Human Geography<\/a>
\nBy David Kennedy and Derrick Riley. Excerpted from Rome’s Desert Frontier University of Texas Press, Austin, 1990. Courtesy of Internet History Sourcebooks.<\/p>\n

Syria\u00a0\u00a0 – in ancient sources @ attalus.org<\/a>
\nThis page \u00a9 Andrew Smith, 2010<\/p>\n

Provincia Syria Palaestina \u2013 The Formation of Today\u2019s Middle East<\/a>
\nCourtesy of Rome Across Europe.<\/p>\n

Syria Palaestina<\/a>
\n“Syria Palaestina was a Roman province between 135 and about 390.It was established by the merger of Roman Syria and Roman Judaea, following the defeat of the Bar Kokhba Revolt in AD 135.”. Courtesy of YouTube<\/p>\n

The Eastern Mediterranean and Syria, 1-500 A.D.<\/a>
\nCourtesy of Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art.<\/p>\n

Who was who in the Roman Empire: Syria<\/a><\/p>\n

List of Roman governors of Syri<\/a>a
\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/p>\n

Appian’s History of Rome: The Syrian Wars (\u00a7\u00a752-55)<\/a>
\nThe translation was made by Horace White; notes and additions in green by Jona Lendering. Courtesy of Livius.org. \u00a9 Jona Lendering.<\/p>\n

The Parthian invasion of Syria 51-50 B.C.<\/a>
\nExcerpted from PersianEmpire.info.<\/p>\n

Narratives of Roman Syria: a historiography of Syria as a province of Rome<\/a>
\nBy Lidewijde de Jong. Princeton\/Stanford Working Papers in Classics.<\/p>\n

Syria Palaestina<\/a>
\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/p>\n

Narratives of Roman Syria: a historiography of Syria as a province of Rome<\/a>
\nBy Lidewijde de Jong. Princeton\/Stanford Working Papers in Classics.<\/p>\n

Zeugma Archaeological Project<\/a>
\nUnder the direction of Ankara University, Department of Archaeology. Zeugma Archeological Project \u00a9 2009<\/p>\n

Zeugma<\/a>
\n“The city had been the capital of allied kings of the Roman Empire one of whom, Antiochus IV, was described as a man “who had inherited great wealth and was the richest client-king of all” (Tacitus Hist 2.81.1). In the first century AD, the kingdom was annexed by Rome to the province of Syria, the city flourished as a frontier town of the Roman Empire, and an entire legion of 5000 soldiers was placed there. Written sources provided occasional insights at various points during its subsequent history but the flesh for these boneswas to be found within the town wall circuit of 5 km enclosing some 250 ha\/ 600 acres, and beyond it in the remains of the ancient villages, farms, aqueducts, quarries and roads of its hinterland.”<\/p>\n

Zeugma: A Roman site in Asia Minor… <\/a>
\n” ZEUGMA lies on the EUPHRATES river, which served as a link between ANATOLIA and MESOPOTAMIA from the earliest times.It is near the village of BELKIS 10 km. east of NISIBIS (Nizip) in the province of GAZIANTEP. Zeugma and Samosata (today known as Belkis and Samsat respectively) were situated at the two easiest points for crossing this great river In particular, this route was used to bring timber from the AMANUS and TAURUS mountains to the first literate, urban civilizations of Southern Mesopotamia and probably by Assyrian traders in metals passing to and from their outpost at Kultepe in Central Anatolia.”<\/p>\n

A Brief History of Zeugma<\/a>
\nBy Dr. M. Semih SUMMAK (P.hD) .<\/p>\n

Zeugma (Belkis)<\/a>
\nCourtesy of Livius.org. All content copyright \u00a9 1995\u20132016 Livius.org<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n

Excavations at Zeugma: conducted by Oxford University<\/a>
\nEdited by William Alyward<\/p>\n

Legio III Augusta in the East. Evidence from Zeugma on the Euphrates<\/a>
\nBy Michael Alexander Speidel. Courtesy of Academia.edu.<\/p>\n

Military Installations at Zeugma: An Overview of the Swiss Archaeological Investigations, 2001\u20122003<\/a>
\nBy M. Hartman and M. A. Speidel.<\/p>\n

Archaeologists Unearth Three Ancient Greek Mosaics in the Ongoing Excavation in Zeugma, Turkey<\/a>
\nBy Rebecca Escamilla.<\/span><\/span> Courtesy of the Laughing Squid.<\/p>\n

Beautiful Mosaics From The Ancient City Of Zeugm<\/a>a
\nCourtesy of MessageTO Eagle .com.<\/p>\n

Lebanon 1200 Images<\/a>
\n“All the images on these pages are the Copyright of the Ministry of Tourism, Lebanon and may not be used without the ministry’s permission. Images of print quality and permission for use can be requested from the Ministry of Tourism at .” Excellent catalogue of images from Lebanon assembled by the American University of Beriut.<\/p>\n

Vaballathus and Zenobia (270-272 A.D.)<\/a>
\nCopyright (C) 1997. Jacqueline F. Long. Excerpted from the DIR :An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Emperors.<\/p>\n

Ancient History Sourcebook: Vopiscus: Aurelian’s Conquest of Palmyra, 273 CE<\/a>
\nFrom: William Stearns Davis, ed., Readings in Ancient History: Illustrative Extracts from the Sources, 2 Vols. (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1912-13), Vol. II: Rome and the West, pp. ??. Courtesy of the Internet Ancient History Sourcebook.<\/p>\n

Baalbek <\/a>
\nCourtesy of Focus Online Magazine.<\/p>\n

Dura-Europos,’Pompeii of the Syrian Desert’ <\/a>
\nDura-Europos is an ancient city in Eastern Syria, destroyed by war and abandoned in the third century AD. Excavations in the 1920s and 30s, renewed since the 1980s, have revealed spectacular remains of elaborately decorated buildings (including a painted synagogue and a very early Christian shrine), and astonishingly well-preserved artefacts. These famous finds led to the city being dubbed the Pompeii of the Syrian desert.\u00a0 Courtesy of Simon James.<\/p>\n

Dura-Europos: A Border City of the Euphrates River<\/a>
\nBy Shawn T. Norris. Excerpted from Rome Across Europe.<\/p>\n

Dura-Europos: Excavating Antiquity<\/a>
\nCourtesy of Yale University Art Gallery.<\/p>\n

The final siege of Dura: ancient ‘chemical warfare’?<\/a>
\n“Recent archival work reappraising the evidence for the final siege of the site suggested that twenty Roman soldiers killed in a siege-tunnel during the final struggle for the town were victims of early ‘chemical warfare'”<\/p>\n

Dura Europos: Crossroads of Cultures<\/a>
\nBy Carly Silver. Courtesy of Archaeology magazine.<\/p>\n

Roman Soldiers in the City of Dura Europos<\/a>
\nBy Simon James. A project examining the rich archaeological remains of one of Rome’s eastermost garrisons in the city of Dura on the Euphrates, University of Leicester. Courtesy of Archaeology magazine.<\/p>\n

The Death of Dura Europos (Updated)<\/a>
\nCourtesy of Zenobia: Empress of the East.<\/p>\n

The Synagogue of Dura Europos<\/a>
\nBy Albert Ringer. Notes from Limmud 2009<\/p>\n

The Dura Europos Synagogue: Theology of Art as Text.<\/a>
\nBy Samuel B. Harrelson<\/p>\n

Jewish Identity at the Limus: The Earliest Reception of the Dura Europos Synagogue Paintings<\/a>
\nBy Steven Fine. Courtesy of academia.edu.<\/p>\n

The Dura Europos Synagogue: Images of a Competitive Community Paintings<\/a>
\nBy Tessa Rajak.<\/p>\n

“I am Hiya” Part 4 (Updated) Much More Graffiti in Dura Europos (3rd century CE)<\/a>
\nIncludes links to Part 1-3. Excerpted from Zenobia: Empress of the East.<\/p>\n

Dura Europos Research Papers<\/a>
\nCourtesy of Academia.edu<\/p>\n

Seleucia in Peria<\/a>
\nSeleucia in Pieria or Seleucia by the Sea: port in Syria, one of the four cities of the Syrian tetrapolis. Courtesy of Livius.org. \u00a9 Jona Lendering.<\/p>\n

Ancient Coins of Syria<\/a>
\nExcerpted from Digital Historia Numerorum: A Manual of Greek Numismatics<\/p>\n

The Silver Coinage of Roman Syria Under the Julio-Claudian Emperors <\/a>
\nBy Kevin Butcher1 and Matthew Ponting. “Analyses of 71 Roman provincial silver coins of the Julio-Claudian emperors (27 BC\u2013AD 68) minted\u00a0 at Caesarea in Cappadocia and Antioch and Tyre in Syria are discussed in this paper”. Levant, Volume 41, Number 1, Spring 2009 , pp. 59-78(20).<\/p>\n

Roman Syria<\/a>
\n38 images of coins from Roman Syria.\u00a0 Excerpted from the Stoa Image gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Syria Brief history of the province excerpted from UNRV History- Roman Empire. Rome’s Desert Frontier: Chapter One: Physical and Human Geography By David Kennedy and Derrick Riley. Excerpted from Rome’s Desert Frontier University of Texas Press, Austin, 1990. Courtesy of Internet History Sourcebooks. Syria\u00a0\u00a0 – in ancient sources @ attalus.org This page \u00a9 Andrew Smith, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/rome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/rome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/rome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/rome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/rome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/rome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/rome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/rome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/rome\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}