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Beate Dignas & Engelbert Winter - Kaveh Farrokh

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198 6 Shared interests: Continuing conflicts<br />

10°N<br />

Mediterianean<br />

Sea<br />

BASTARNAE<br />

Alexandria<br />

E G Y P T<br />

Byzantium<br />

Tyre<br />

Damascus<br />

Gaza<br />

S Y R I A<br />

( T A C H I N )<br />

20°N<br />

Myos-Hormos<br />

R e d S e a<br />

B l a c k S e a<br />

Antakya (Antioch)<br />

Halebie-Zenobia<br />

Dura-Europa<br />

Palmyra<br />

Euphrates<br />

A R A B I A<br />

Tigris<br />

30 °E<br />

Panticapaeum<br />

A L A N I<br />

AOR SI<br />

Hamadan<br />

(Ecoatana<br />

Aman)<br />

A B Z O A E<br />

(YEN-TS'A I )<br />

Caspian Sea<br />

P A R T H I A<br />

(ANHSI)<br />

¯ ¯ ¯<br />

P e r s i a n<br />

G u l f<br />

Damghan Damghan<br />

(Hacatomphylos)<br />

(Hacatomphylos)<br />

Ho-tu) Ho-tu)<br />

Aral<br />

Sea<br />

Oxus<br />

Marv<br />

(Antiokia Margiana)<br />

(Mu-lu)<br />

60 °E<br />

A r a b i a n<br />

Sea<br />

( E t h r y a e a n S e a )<br />

SOGDIANA<br />

(K'ANG CHU)<br />

BACTIRIA<br />

(TA HSIA)<br />

60 °E<br />

SYEBI<br />

(CHIEN-K'UN)<br />

Jaxarles<br />

Samarkand<br />

(Maracanda)<br />

(Pei-t'ien )<br />

Balkh<br />

(Bactra)<br />

(Pu-tiao)<br />

Tashkent<br />

Indus<br />

Barbaricum<br />

Map 13: The Silk Road from China to the Roman Orient<br />

FARGHANA<br />

(IAYUAN)<br />

Begram<br />

KUSHAN<br />

I TAY U E H C H I H<br />

¯<br />

ALANORSI<br />

(TING-LING)<br />

L. Balkhash<br />

Issyk-kul<br />

Taxila<br />

Barygaza<br />

R. Iii<br />

WU-SUN<br />

T Te n<br />

Kashgar ¯<br />

(Su-to)<br />

Yarkand<br />

(Su-chil)<br />

Mathura<br />

?<br />

(T'IEN<br />

which have famous walls, 130 in war always thwart the bravery of the Persians; 131<br />

they are enthusiastic about their business and well engaged in trade with the entire<br />

province.<br />

130 In late antiquity city walls were considered as sanctum and could not be mended or changed without<br />

explicit permission by the emperor; cf. Dig. i.8.9.4, i.8.8.2 and i.8.11; on this issue see <strong>Winter</strong> 1996:<br />

205–6.<br />

131 The Sasanians had attacked Nisibis repeatedly during the reign of Constantius II (7).

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