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The Ḥaurān—Black, Desertic, and Fertile The Ḥaurān—Black, Desertic, and Fertile
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The Historical Agents—Questioning Narratives The Historical Agents—Questioning Narratives
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The Evidence and Inscriptions The Evidence and Inscriptions
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The Scholarly Interests in and Euro-centric Views on Ḥaurān The Scholarly Interests in and Euro-centric Views on Ḥaurān
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Living in Ḥaurān Living in Ḥaurān
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Regional interrelations and Local Settlement Patterns Regional interrelations and Local Settlement Patterns
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Routes Routes
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Communities Communities
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People and Hauranite Style People and Hauranite Style
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Living a Farm Life Living a Farm Life
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Living to Best Standards Living to Best Standards
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Protecting and Integrating Ḥaurān Protecting and Integrating Ḥaurān
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Fortlets, Soldiers, and Veterans Fortlets, Soldiers, and Veterans
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Places in the Ḥarra—Inbetween and Reaching out Places in the Ḥarra—Inbetween and Reaching out
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Representing Humans and Worshipping Deities Representing Humans and Worshipping Deities
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Humans, Animals, and Artisans Humans, Animals, and Artisans
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Deities, but Not the Divinized Emperor Deities, but Not the Divinized Emperor
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Burying and Remembering the Dead Burying and Remembering the Dead
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Ḥaurān—A Distinct Region Ḥaurān—A Distinct Region
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Abbreviations Abbreviations
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Bibliography Bibliography
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36 Hellenistic and Roman Ḥaurān: A Well-Connected Near Eastern Region with a Local Style
Get accessAnna-Katharina Rieger was trained as a classical archaeologist at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, where she received her PhD. Her broader interests cover material religion, arid landscapes, space and mobility, urbanism, iconography, and economic and social history in the central and eastern Mediterranean. After positions at the German Archaeological Institute, Rome, and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, she was research assistant and visiting lecturer at Göttingen, Halle-Wittenberg, and Berlin. She directed a landscape-archaeological project in the Eastern Marmarica on water management, dryland agriculture, and mobile life-strategies. With a project on sacred places in the Roman Near East she was member of the ERC Advanced Grant “Lived Ancient Religion” (dir. Rubina Raja and Jörg Rüpke) at the University of Erfurt. She was awarded fellowships of the Humboldt Foundation and the Excellence Initiative of the University of Warsaw. Recent publications cover sacred space in the Palmyrene, and religion and local identity in the Lebanon Mountains.
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Published:22 April 2025
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Abstract
Ḥaurān, the basalt region of southern Syria and northern Jordan, forms a distinct regional entity in terms of environment and history. The particularities of Ḥaurān in Graeco-Roman times not only consist of the landscape, the material culture, and architecture, but they are also reflected in the interrelations of different people and their lifestyles, in economic and political organization, in settlement patterns as well as in the religious practices and institutions. Employing a local historical perspective helps trace how the agents—Ḥaurānites, Nabataeans, Ituraeans, Romans—shaped and were shaped by the local conditions in the period 200 bc to ad 500, and how they can hardly be understood from a purely Eurocentric or Mediterranean point of view.
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