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Roman Roads:
The New Way of Trajan

Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP
Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP
Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP
Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP
Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP
Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP
Virtual Karak Resources Project - VKRP

Daniel Hoffman
Lee University

Bibliography

Please see also the bibliography from the Roman Forts case study.

Alliata, E.

1999 The Pilgrimage Routes during the Byzantine Period in Transjordan. Pp. 121-4 in M. Piccirillo and E. Alliata. eds. The Madaba Map Centenary 1897-1997: Travelling through the Byzantine Umayyad Period. Jerusalem: Studium Biblicum Franciscanum.

Bennett, J.

1997 Trajan, Optimus Princeps: A Life and Times. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Bowersock, G. W.

1983 Roman Arabia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Butler, H. C.

1921 Trajan’s Road from Bosra to the Red Sea. Pp. vii-xvi in Syria: Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904-5 and 1909, III.A.2. Leiden.

De Vries, B. ed.

1997 Roman roads and routes in north-east Jordan. Levant 29: 71-93.

Dilke, O. A. W.

1987 Itineraries and Geographical Maps in the Early and Late Roman Empires, and Cartography in the Byzantine Empire. Pp. 234-275 in The History of Cartography, Vol. 1, J. B. Harley and D. Woodward, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago.

Dowling, T. E.

1896 Two Roman Milestones at Wady Môjib (River Arnon). PEFQS Oct.: 332-5.

Fiema, Z. T.

1993 Tuwaneh and the Via Nova Traiana in Southern Jordan. ADAJ 37: 549-50.

Finkelstein, I.

1979 The Holy Land in the Tabula Peutingeriana: A Historical-Geographical
Approach. PEQ 111: 2734.

Freeman, P. W.

1996 The Annexation of Arabia and Imperial Grand Strategy. Pp. 91-118 in D. Kennedy ed. The Roman Army in the East. JRA Supplement No.18.

Graf, David.

1995 The Via Nova Traiana in Arabia Petraea. Pp. 241-267 in The Roman and Byzantine Near East: Recent Archaeological Research. Ann Arbor. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 14.

1997 Rome and the Arabian Frontier: From the Nabataeans to the Saracens. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing.

1998 Roman Roads East of the Jordan. Pp. 230-34 in M. Piccirillo and E. Alliata (eds.), The Madaba Map Centenary 1897-1997: Travelling through the Byzantine Umayyad Period. Jerusalem: Studium Biblicum Franciscanum.

Graf, D. F., Isaac, B., and Roll, I.

1992 Roads and Highways: Roman Roads. Pp. 782-7 in D. N. Freedman (ed.), The Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 5. New York: Doubleday.

Kennedy, D.

1992 The Roman Frontier in Arabia (Jordanian Sector). Journal of Roman Archaeology 5: 473-89.

Kennedy, D., and Riley, D.

1990 Rome’s Desert Frontier from the Air. London: Batsford.

Kennedy, D. and Al Husan, A.

1996 New Milestones from Northern Jordan: 1992-1995. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 113: 257262.

MacDonald, B.

1996 The Route of the Via Nova Traiana Immediately South of Wadi al Hasa. PEQ 128: 12-15.

Mattingly, G. L.

1990 Settlement on Jordan’s Kerak Plateau from Iron Age IIC through the Early Roman Period. Aram 2.1-2: 309-35.

1997 The King’s Highway, The Desert Highway, and Central Jordan’s Kerak Plateau. Aram 8:89-99.

Millar, F.

1993 The Roman Near East: 31 BC – AD 337. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Mittmann, S.

1966 The Roman Road from Gerasa to Adraa. ADAJ 11: 65-87.

Parker, S. T.

1986 Romans and Saracens: A History of the Arabian Frontier. Philadelphia: American Schools of Oriental Research.

1986 Transjordan: Transjordan in the Persian through Roman Periods. Pp. 235-8 in E. M. Meyers. ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, vol. 5. New York: Oxford University Press.

Roll, I.

1998 The Roads in Roman-Byzantine Palaestina and Arabia. Pp. 109-13 in M. Piccirillo and E. Alliata (eds.), The Madaba Map Centenary 1897-1997: Travelling through the Byzantine Umayyad Period. Jerusalem: Studium Biblicum Franciscanum.

Segal, A.

1988 Town Planning and Architecture in Provincia Arabia: The Cities along the Via Traiana Nova in the 1st-3rd Centuries C.E. BAR International Series 419. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.

1997 From Function to Monument: Urban Landscapes of Roman Palestine, Syria and Provincia Arabia. Oxford Monograph 66. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

Smith, G. A.

1904-5 The Roman Road between Kerak and Madeba. PEFQS 1904: 367-77; 1905: 39-48.

Tsafrir, Y.

1986 The Maps used by Theodosius: On the Pilgrim Maps of the Holy Land and Jerusalem in the Sixth Century C.E. Dumbarton Oaks Papers 40: 129-145.

Wiseman, J.

2000 Barbarians at the Gate: Roman Frontiers from Britain to Arabia. Archaeology 53.6: 12-14.

Whittaker, C. R.

1994 Frontiers of the Roman Empire: A Social and Economic Study. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Zayadine, F.

1999 The Karak District in the Madaba Map. Pp. 229-30 in M. Piccirillo and E. Alliata. eds. The Madaba Map Centenary 1897-1997: Travelling through the Byzantine Umayyad Period. Jerusalem: Studium Biblicum Franciscanum.
 

 

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