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Beate Dignas & Engelbert Winter - Kaveh Farrokh

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a<br />

40°N<br />

b CYPRUS<br />

Arados<br />

30°N<br />

c<br />

Galatian<br />

Bridge<br />

Mediterranean<br />

Bridge<br />

CAPPADOCIA<br />

23 Palmyra 157<br />

A 40°E B 50°E C<br />

Samosata<br />

CILICIA Zeugma<br />

Hierapolis<br />

Antioch<br />

Bertytos<br />

Sidon<br />

Tyre<br />

Laodicea<br />

PALESTINE<br />

Bostra<br />

JUDEA Jerusalem<br />

SINAI<br />

Gaza<br />

Petra<br />

A<br />

Polemoniac Bridge<br />

A R M E N I A M I N O R<br />

SOPHENE<br />

40°E<br />

Nisbis<br />

SYRIA<br />

Dura-<br />

Emesa Europos<br />

Palmyra<br />

Damascus<br />

Alia<br />

N A B ATA E I<br />

Leukè Kômè?<br />

Ruwwafa<br />

Red<br />

Sea<br />

ARABIA<br />

HEDJAZ<br />

Dj.<br />

Sindjar<br />

Osrhoëne<br />

Hègra<br />

Leukè Kômè?<br />

Khabour<br />

Djézireh<br />

Anat<br />

Hatra<br />

Doumata<br />

(Djawf)<br />

L. Van<br />

ADIABENE<br />

Tigris<br />

Singara Arbela<br />

Mesopotamia<br />

ASSYRIA<br />

Seleucia Ctesiphon<br />

Hit<br />

Babylon<br />

Vologesias<br />

Artaxata<br />

ARMENIA<br />

SCALE<br />

E u p hrates<br />

B<br />

Spasinou<br />

Charax<br />

0 100 200 300 400 km<br />

0 100 100 miles<br />

Map 9: Palmyra and the Roman East in the second century<br />

M E S E N E<br />

40°N<br />

a<br />

b<br />

30°N<br />

c<br />

50°E C<br />

against both the Parthian kingdom and the many Arab tribes in Syria. 34<br />

Because of its mediating role in the world of trade Palmyra was interested<br />

in maintaining good relations with Parthia but the city preferred to attach<br />

itself to Rome, the most powerful military power in the area. Palmyra’s<br />

34 Shahîd 1984a: 22–4.

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