Sophene, Gordyene, and Adiabene : three regna minora of northern Mesopotamia between east and west
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Sophene, Gordyene, and Adiabene : three regna minora of northern Mesopotamia between east and west
(Impact of empire, v. 26)
Brill, c2017
- : hardback
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In Sophene, Gordyene, and Adiabene, M. Marciak offers the first-ever comprehensive study of the history and culture of these three little-known countries of Northern Mesopotamia (3rd century BCE - 7th century CE). The book gives an overview of the historical geography, material culture, and political history of each of these countries. Furthermore, the summary offers a regional perspective by describing the history of this area as a subject of the political and cultural competition of great powers.
This book answers both a recent growth of interest in ancient Mesopotamia as the frontier area, as well as the urgent need for documentation of the cultural heritage of a region that has recently become subject to the destructive influence of sectarian violence.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations and Preliminary Remarks
Introduction
Part 1: Sophene
1 Historical Geography of Sophene
1.1 Strabo
1.2 Pliny the Elder
1.3 Ptolemy
1.4 Plutarch and Tabula Peutingeriana
1.5 Tacitus
1.6 Sophene in the Context of Byzantine-Sasanian Wars
1.7 Notitia Dignitatum
1.8 Byzantine Administrative Reforms of Armenian Lands
1.9 Descriptio Orbis Romani by George of Cyprus
1.10 Sophene in Armenian Sources
1.11 Summary and Conclusions
2 Cultural Landscape of Sophene
2.1 Literary Sources
2.2 Papyrological and Epigraphic Evidence
2.3 Numismatic Evidence
2.4 Onomastic Data
2.5 Archaeological Sites
2.6 Communication Routes in the Upper Tigris Region
2.7 Roman Fortresses and Bridges in the Upper Tigris Region
2.8 Summary and Conclusions
3 Political History of Sophene
3.1 The Beginnings: Sophene and Kommagene Under the Rule of the Orontids?
3.2 The Dynasty of Zariadres
3.3 Sophene and the Third Mithridatic War
3.4 Sohaemus and the Peace of Rhandeia
3.5 Sophene in the Context of the Roman-Sasanian Wars
3.6 The Transtigritani in the Light of Armenian sources
3.7 List of Rulers of Sophene
3.8 Summary and Conclusions
Part 2: Gordyene
4 Historical Geography of Gordyene
4.1 Xenophon's Karduchoi
4.2 Strabo
4.3 Pliny the Elder
4.4 Ptolemy
4.5 Plutarch
4.6 Arrian, Cassius Dio and Tabula Peutingeriana
4.7 Ammianus Marcellinus, Notitia Dignitatum, and Descriptio Orbis Romani
4.8 Armenian Sources
4.9 Cudi Dag in Jewish-Postbiblical, Syriac and Arabic Sources
4.10 Summary and Conclusions
5 Cultural Landscape of Gordyene
5.1 Literary Sources
5.2 Ancient Routes in Gordyene
5.3 Onomastic Data
5.4 Archaeological Sites
5.5 Summary and Conclusions
6 Political History of Gordyene
6.1 Karduchoi in the Persian Empire
6.2 King Zarbienos
6.3 Gordyene and Adiabene
6.4 Trajan and Gordyene
6.5 Gordyene and Transtigritanae regiones
6.6 Gordyene in the Sasanian Kingdom
6.7 Summary and Conclusions
Part 3: Adiabene
7 Historical Geography of Adiabene
7.1 Ethnographical and Geographical Accounts on Adiabene
7.2 Historiographical Passages on Adiabene
7.3 Summary and Conclusions
8 Cultural Landscape of Adiabene
8.1 Literary Sources
8.2 Archaeological Sites
8.3 Numismatic and Epigraphic Evidence
8.4 The Adiabene Onomasticon
8.5 Monumental Reliefs in Adiabene
8.6 Summary
9 Political History of Adiabene
9.1 Adiabene in the Hellenistic Period
9.2 Adiabene in the Parthian Period (1st Century BCE-1st Century CE)
9.3 Adiabene and Trajan's Parthian War
9.4 Lucius Verus
9.5 Septimius Severus
9.6 Adiabene, Hatra, and Osrhoene
9.7 Caracalla
9.8 Cognomen Adiabenicus in the Third and Fourth Centuries CE
9.9 The Byzantine Campaigns in Adiabene in the 6-7th Centuries CE
9.10 Adiabene within the Sasanian Kingdom
9.11 Summary and Conclusions
10 Summary: A Regional Perspective and General Issues
Bibliography
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