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Hill, George Francis, Sir, 1867-1948. This text is part of the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA, http://timea.rice.edu), funded by the Institute of Museum ...
Wealth, culture, and power dwelled in the city of Palmyra in the third century A.D. This cosmopolitan capital of the Roman province of the same name lay close to the empire’s eastern borders ...
In Britain, at the northernmost edge of the empire, Rome’s normal strategies for command and control of its provinces failed horribly. For the first time in memory, the Roman army was in retreat ...
while Roman provinces or cities often sought out an influential senator to act as patroni and oversee their interests in Rome. The chosen few Despite the inflexibility of Roman society ...
fiscal evasion and possible rebellious activity in the Roman provinces of Iudaea and Arabia (the region of modern Israel and Jordan) immediately before the outbreak of the Bar Kokhba Revolt.