List of Plates ix Notes on Contributors xi Preface xix Maps xxi

1. The Transition to Late Antiquity 1 A. G. POULTER 2. The Transition to Late Antiquity on the Lower Danube: the City, a Fort, and the Countryside 51 A. G. POULTER

The Historical Context

3. The Lower Danube Region under Pressure: from Valens to Heraclius 101 J. H. W. G. LIEBESCHUETZ 4. The Late Roman Army and the Defence of the Balkans 135 MICHAEL WHITBY 5. Goths in the Roman Balkans, c. 350-500 163 P. HEATHER

The City of NIcopolis

6. The Two Anglo-Bulgarian Research Programmes and the Results of the Bulgarian Excavations 193 L. SLOKOSKA 7. The Late Roman Agora and the State of Civic Organization 203 P. VLADKOVA 8. The Environmental Archaeology Research Programme at Nicopolis: Methodology and Results 219 M. BEECH Contents VI

The Fort at Dichin

9 Dichin (Bulgaria): Interpreting the Ceramic Evidence in its Wider Context 251 VIVIEN G. SWAN 10 Seeds of Destruction: Conflagration in the Grain Stores of Dichin 281 RGRINTER 11 A Short Report on the Preliminary Results from the Study of the Mammal and Bird Bone Assemblages from Dichin 287 C.JOHNSTONE 12 Coin Circulation in the Balkans in Late Antiquity 295 P. GUEST

The City in Context

13. The Transformation of Cities in Late Antiquity within the Provinces of Macedonia and Epirus 311 J,-P. SODINI 14. Caricin Grad and the Changes in the Nature of Urbanism in the Central Balkans in the Sixth Century 337 B. BAVANT 15. Nicopolis ad Istrum: Backward and Balkan? 375 M. WHITTOW 16. Ephcsus in the Late Roman and Early Byzantine Period: Changes in its Urban Character from the Third to the Seventh Century AD 391 S. LADSTATTER AND A. PULZ 17. Amida and Tropaeum Traiani: a Comparison of Late Antique Fortress Cities on the Lower Danube and Mesopotamia 435 J. CROW

The Fort in Context

18. 1 he Fort of Iatrus in Moesia Secunda: Observations on the Late Roman Defensive System on the Lower Danube (Fourth-Sixth centuries AD) 459 GHRDA VON BULOW 19. The Fortresses o( Thrace and Dacia in the Early Byzantine Period 479 V. DINCHEV 20. From the Danube to the Po: the Defence of Pannonia and Italy in the Fourth and Fifth Centuries AD 547 NtilL CHRISTIE Vll

21. Extensive Field Survey in North Central Bulgaria 581 I. TSUROV 22. Site-Specific Field Survey: the Methodology 583 A. G. POULTER 23. Geophysical Survey and Rural Settlement Architecture on the Lower Danube at the Transition to Late Antiquity 597 M. x BOYD 24. Another view on Late Antiquity: Sagaiassos (SW Anatolia), its Suburbium and its Countryside in Late Antiquity 611 H. VANHAVERBEKE. F. MARTENS, AND M. WAELKENS 25. The Contribution of Regional Survey to the Late Antiquity Debate: Greece in its Mediterranean Context 649 J. BINTLIFF PPN: 27611194X Titel: The transition to late antiquity : on the Danube and beyond / ed. by A. G. Poulter. - . - New York [u.a.] : Oxford Univ. Press, 2007 ISBN: 978-0-19-726402-7 Bibliographischer Datensatz im SWB-Verbund