MARCIAK, M.: , GORDYENE, AND . THREE REGNA MINORA OF NORTHERN MESOPOTAMIA BETWEEN EAST AND WEST

Introduction

Part 1: Sophene 1 Historical Geography of Sophene 1.1 Strabo 1.2 Pliny the Elder 1.3 Ptolemy 1.4 Plutarch and Tabula Peutingeriana 1.5 Tacitus 1.6 Sophene in the Context of By zantine-Sasanian Wars 1.7 Notitia Dignitatum 1.8 By zantine Administrativ e Ref orms of Armenian Lands 1.9 Descriptio Orbis Romani by George of Cy prus 1.10 Sophene in Armenian Sources 1.11 Summary and Conclusions

2 Cultural Landscape of Sophene 2.1 Literary Sources 2.2 Papy rological and Epigraphic Ev idence 2.3 Numismatic Ev idence 2.4 Onomastic Data 2.5 Archaeological Sites 2.6 Communication Routes in the Upper Tigris 2.7 Roman Fortresses and Bridges in the Upper Tigris Region 2.8 Summary and Conclusions 3 Political History of Sophene 3.1 The Beginnings: Sophene and Kommagene Under the Rule of the Orontids? 3.2 The Dy nasty of Zariadres 3.3 Sophene and the Third Mithridatic War 3.4 Sohaemus and the Peace of Rhandeia 3.5 Sophene in the Context of the Roman-Sasanian Wars 3.6 The Transtigritani in the Light of Armenian sources 3.7 List of Rulers of Sophene 3.8 Summary and Conclusions

Part 2: Gordyene 4 Historical Geography of Gordy ene 4.1 Xenophon’s Karduchoi 4.2 Strabo 4.3 Pliny the Elder 4.4 Ptolemy 4.5 Plutarch 4.6 Arrian, Cassius Dio and Tabula Peutingeriana 4.7 Ammianus Marcellinus, Notitia Dignitatum, and Descriptio Orbis Romani 4.8 Armenian Sources 4.9 Cudi Da ğι in Jewish-Postbiblical, Sy riac and Arabic Sources 4.10 Summary and Conclusions

5 Cultural Landscape of Gordy ene 5.1 Literary Sources 5.2 Ancient Routes in Gordy ene 5.3 Onomastic Data 5.4 Archaeological Sites 5.5 Summary and Conclusions

6 Political History of Gordy ene 6.1 Karduchoi in the Persian Empire 6.2 King Zarbienos 6.3 Gordy ene and Adiabene 6.4 Trajan and Gordy ene 6.5 Gordy ene and Transtigritanae regiones 6.6 Gordy ene in the Sasanian Kingdom 6.7 Summary and Conclusions

Part 3: Adiabene 7 Historical Geography of Adiabene 7.1 Ethnographical and Geographical Accounts on Adiabene 7.2 Historiographical Passages on Adiabene 7.3 Summary and Conclusions

8 Cultural Landscape of Adiabene 8.1 Literary Sources 8.2 Archaeological Sites 8.3 Numismatic and Epigraphic Ev idence 8.4 The Adiabene Onomasticon 8.5 Monumental Relief s in Adiabene 8.6 Summary

9 Political History of Adiabene 9.1 Adiabene in the 9.2 Adiabene in the Parthian Period (1st Century BCE–1st Century CE) 9.3 Adiabene and Trajan’s Parthian War 9.4 Lucius Verus 9.5 Septimius Sev erus 9.6 Adiabene, Hatra, and Osrhoene 9.7 Caracalla 9.8 Cognomen Adiabenicus in the Third and Fourth Centuries CE 9.9 The By zantine Campaigns in Adiabene in the 6–7th Centuries CE 9.10 Adiabene within the Sasanian Kingdom 9.11 Summary and Conclusions

10 Summary : A Regional Perspectiv e and General Issues

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