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Book SynopsisThis volume examines archaeological evidence for this last phase of urban life in Asia Minor, one of the Roman empire's most prosperous regions. It brings together studies by an international group of scholars on topics ranging from the public sculpture of Constantinople to the depopulation of the Anatolian countryside in early Byzantine times.
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Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements
1. Sardis in Late Antiquity, Marcus Rautman
2. Sculpture and the Rhetorical Imagination in Late Antique Constantinople, Sarah Bassett
3. The Remains of the Centuries. Sculptures and Statue Bases in Late Antique Ephesus: The Evidence of the Upper Agora, Maria Aurenhammer and alexander Sokolicek
4. The Sculptural Decoration of Ephesian Bath Buildings in Late Antiquity, Johanna Auinger
5. The Town Center of Miletus from Roman Imperial Times to Late Antiquity, Ortwin Dally, Martin Maischberger, Peter I. Schneider, and Andreas Scholl
6. The Riddle of the Market Gate: Miletus and the Character and Date of Earlier Byzantine Fortifications in Anatolia, Philipp Niewohner
7. Survey Evidence for Late Antique Settlement in the Region around Aphrodisias, Christopher Ratte and Peter D. De Staebler
8. Buildings and Citizens: Observations from Late Antique and Byzantine Blaundos in Phrygia, Axel Filges
9. Troy and the Granicus River Valley in Late Antiquity, Charles Brian Rose
10. Trades, Crafts, and Agricultural Production in Town and Countryside in Southeastern Isauria, Gunder Varinlioglu
11. Akoren: Two Late Antique Villages in Cilicia, Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt
12. Anazarbos in Late Antiquity, Richard Posamentir
13. Some Aspects of the Development of Osrhoene in Late Antiquity, Peter Baumeister
14. Cities in the Eastern Roman Empire from Constantine to Heraclius, David Potter
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