Table of Contents

Urbanization (Greg Woolf)
Roman colonies in the province of Achaia (A Rizakis)
Syrian desert (M Gawlikowski)
The Syrian countryside (G Tate)
Jewish rural settlement (Y Hirschfield)
Roman relations with the Persicus sinus (D T Potts)
The Imperial image (C B Rose)
The Black Sea region (David Braund)
Funerary monuments in Asia Minor (Sarah Cormack)
Tomb architecture at Palmyra (A Schmidt-Colinet)
Pilgrimage, religion and visual culture in the East (Jas Elsner)

Reviews

The book is a success ... a welcome contribution to the current field of scholarship.' -- American Journal Of Archaeology American Journal Of Archaeology