The Roman Frontier in Central Jordan

Until the 1980s, the Roman frontier in modern Jordan was among the least studied of the empire's far-flung border regions. From 1980 until 1989, the Limes Arabicus Project investigated the frontier east of the Dead Sea. Excavation focused on the late Roman legionary fortress of el-Lejjun as well as soundings of four smaller but contemporaneous forts. The project's regional survey recorded over five hundred other archaeological sites in the area, dating from the Paleolithic to the Late Islamic periods. This report presents detailed results from the excavated forts, a broad range of material cultural evidence from animal bones to bedouin burials, and provides a synthesis of the history of this frontier, which witnessed the first confrontation between the Byzantine Empire and the forces of Islam.

ISBN 0884022986   Volumes 2 Hardbacks ISBN13 9780884022985 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 3466 Publisher Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection   Published in Washington DC Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection   Series ISSN 40 Format Hardback   Series title Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Studies Publication date 18 Jul 2006   Height (mm) 287 Library of Congress 2004021228   Width (mm) 212 DEWEY 939.4805   Spine width (mm) 81 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly Pages 1104

The material, systematically and fully presented, is a significant contribution for all students interested in the Roman presence at the edge of the desert, in the late Roman army, in military archaeology of the Near East from the late third century till the Islamic conquest, in architecture, small finds, glass, coins, and metallurgy. -- Benjamin Isaac "Journal of Roman Studies" (12/01/2007)

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