university of california press the hellenistic settlements in syria the red sea basin and north africa oct 2006

[...]... this side the Euphrates; and on the south by Arabia Felix and Aegypt; and on the west by the Aegyptian and Syrian Seas as far as Issus We set down as parts of Syria, beginning at Cilicia and Mt Amanus, both Commagene and the Seleucis of Syria then Coele -Syria and last, on the seaboard, Phoenicia, and in the interior, Judaea Some writers divide Syria as a whole into Coelo-Syrians and Syrians and Phoenicians... Bargylus and Amanus ranges, and the mountains of Galilee and Judaea form the northern and southern extensions of the Lebanon The whole forms a well-dened chain but is broken by several gaps, that between the Amanus and the Bargylus through which the Orontes makes its way to the sea, that between the Bargylus and the Lebanon cut by the Eleutherus river, and, the most important of them all, the plain of Esdraelon... found.37 The extant weights date from the reign of Antiochos III down to the end of the Seleucid rule in Syria We may divide the weights into two groups Weights in the rst group have the name of the king, the denomination, and, in the case of the later ones, the name of the agoranomos as well as the same type of ofcial symbol as that found on coins, namely, an anchor with either Poseidon or Nike These... University of Cincinnati and at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton I am very grateful to the staff of these libraries for their continuing and gracious assistance Princeton, New Jersey August 2003 The Scholarship and the Sources RECENT SCHOLARSHIP Many of the historical investigations and reference works mentioned in The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor deal... the American University of Beirut Museum, Palestine and Phoenicia; Y Meshorers City-Coins of Eretz-Israel and the Decapolis in the Roman Period; A Spijkermans Coins of the Decapolis and Provincia Arabia; and A Kindler and A Steins Bibliography of the City Coinage of Palestine C Augộ provides a useful introduction (with extensive bibliography) to the coinage of Hellenistic and Roman Syria in Archộologie,... two principal rivers run from a central watershed, the Jordan southwards into the Dead Sea, the Orontes northwards till it breaks through the western chain into the Mediterranean These two mountain ranges attain their greatest height at their centres, where they form the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon To the north and south of these summits they sink and spread out into broad areas of highland Thus the Bargylus... Hellenistic settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor Many of these same Greek and Latin authorsPolybius, Diodorus Siculus, Strabo, and Pliny, for examplegive information about Syria or Mesopotamia as well In addition, there are a number of other Greek and Latin authors who provide useful information about the Hellenistic settlements in these regions Appian (c 95c 165 a.d.) was born in Alexandreia... learn about the Jewish community in Alexandreia from the Contra Apionem.4 Procopius ( rst half of the sixth century a.d.) was born in Caesarea in Palestine He was the author of the History of the Wars of Justinian and On the Buildings of Justinian; both works contain references to Hellenistic foundations in the Middle East as well as in Cyrenaica Lucian (b c 120 a.d.) is aptly described in the Oxford... traveled to the Near East in the latter part of the fourth century a.d The only surviving manuscript of Egerias Itinerarium dates to the eleventh century a.d It preserves the middle of her book; the beginning and end remain lost The Itinerarium is essentially a diary recording what Egeria saw in the course of her travels in the Near East The rst twenty-three chapters of the surviving text describe four... settlements of Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa The third volume will deal with the foundations in Mesopotamia and regions farther east The present volume, like the rst, is organized by geographic areas Within each area the settlements are ordered alphabetically The entry for each foundation has two basic sections: narrative and annotation In the narrative I attempt to identify the settlements, their . Literature The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa Getzel M. Cohen UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley Los Angeles London Published with the support of the Classics. The Horse and Jockey from Artemision: A Bronze Equestrian Monument of the Hellenistic Period, by Seán Hemingway XLVI. The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa, . Fund of the University of Cincinnati, established by Louise Taft Semple in memory of her father, Charles Phelps Taft. University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses