Karak Resources Project

Alliata, E.

1999 The Pilgrimage Routes during the Byzantine Period in Transjordan. Pp. 121-4 in M. Piccirillo and E. Alliata. eds. The Madaba Map Centenary 1897-1997: Travelling through the Byzantine Umayyad Period. Jerusalem: Studium Biblicum Franciscanum.

Bennett, J.

1997 Trajan, Optimus Princeps: A Life and Times. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Bowersock, G. W.

1983 Roman Arabia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Butler, H. C.

1921 Trajan’s Road from Bosra to the Red Sea. Pp. vii-xvi in Syria: Publications of the Princeton University Archaeological Expeditions to Syria in 1904-5 and 1909, III.A.2. Leiden.

De Vries, B. ed.

1997 Roman roads and routes in north-east Jordan. Levant 29: 71-93.

Dilke, O. A. W.

1987 Itineraries and Geographical Maps in the Early and Late Roman Empires, and Cartography in the Byzantine Empire. Pp. 234-275 in The History of Cartography, Vol. 1, J. B. Harley and D. Woodward, eds. Chicago: University of Chicago.

Dowling, T. E.

1896 Two Roman Milestones at Wady Môjib (River Arnon). PEFQS Oct.: 332-5.

Fiema, Z. T.

1993 Tuwaneh and the Via Nova Traiana in Southern Jordan. ADAJ 37: 549-50.

Finkelstein, I.

1979 The Holy Land in the Tabula Peutingeriana: A Historical-Geographical Approach. PEQ 111: 2734.

Freeman, P. W.

1996 The Annexation of Arabia and Imperial Grand Strategy. Pp. 91-118 in D. Kennedy ed. The Roman Army in the East. JRA Supplement No.18.

Graf, David.

1995 The Via Nova Traiana in Arabia Petraea. Pp. 241-267 in The Roman and Byzantine Near East: Recent Archaeological Research. Ann Arbor. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 14.

1997 Rome and the Arabian Frontier: From the Nabataeans to the Saracens. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate Publishing.

1998 Roman Roads East of the Jordan. Pp. 230-34 in M. Piccirillo and E. Alliata (eds.), The Madaba Map Centenary 1897-1997: Travelling through the Byzantine Umayyad Period. Jerusalem: Studium Biblicum Franciscanum.

Graf, D. F., Isaac, B., and Roll, I.

1992 Roads and Highways: Roman Roads. Pp. 782-7 in D. N. Freedman (ed.), The Anchor Bible Dictionary, vol. 5. New York: Doubleday.

Kennedy, D.

1992 The Roman Frontier in Arabia (Jordanian Sector). Journal of Roman Archaeology 5: 473-89.

Kennedy, D., and Riley, D.

1990 Rome’s Desert Frontier from the Air. London: Batsford.

Kennedy, D. and Al Husan, A.

1996 New Milestones from Northern Jordan: 1992-1995. Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 113: 257262.

MacDonald, B.

1996 The Route of the Via Nova Traiana Immediately South of Wadi al Hasa. PEQ 128: 12-15.

Mattingly, G. L.

1990 Settlement on Jordan’s Kerak Plateau from Iron Age IIC through the Early Roman Period. Aram 2.1-2: 309-35.

1997 The King’s Highway, The Desert Highway, and Central Jordan’s Kerak Plateau. Aram 8:89-99.

Millar, F.

1993 The Roman Near East: 31 BC – AD 337. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.

Mittmann, S.

1966 The Roman Road from Gerasa to Adraa. ADAJ 11: 65-87.

Parker, S. T.

1986 Romans and Saracens: A History of the Arabian Frontier. Philadelphia: American Schools of Oriental Research.

1986 Transjordan: Transjordan in the Persian through Roman Periods. Pp. 235-8 in E. M. Meyers. ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East, vol. 5. New York: Oxford University Press.

Roll, I.

1998 The Roads in Roman-Byzantine Palaestina and Arabia. Pp. 109-13 in M. Piccirillo and E. Alliata (eds.), The Madaba Map Centenary 1897-1997: Travelling through the Byzantine Umayyad Period. Jerusalem: Studium Biblicum Franciscanum.

Segal, A.

1988 Town Planning and Architecture in Provincia Arabia: The Cities along the Via Traiana Nova in the 1st-3rd Centuries C.E. BAR International Series 419. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.

1997 From Function to Monument: Urban Landscapes of Roman Palestine, Syria and Provincia Arabia. Oxford Monograph 66. Oxford: Oxbow Books.

Smith, G. A.

1904-5 The Roman Road between Kerak and Madeba. PEFQS 1904: 367-77; 1905: 39-48.

Tsafrir, Y.

1986 The Maps used by Theodosius: On the Pilgrim Maps of the Holy Land and Jerusalem in the Sixth Century C.E. Dumbarton Oaks Papers 40: 129-145.

Wiseman, J.

2000 Barbarians at the Gate: Roman Frontiers from Britain to Arabia. Archaeology 53.6: 12-14.

Whittaker, C. R.

1994 Frontiers of the Roman Empire: A Social and Economic Study. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Zayadine, F.

1999 The Karak District in the Madaba Map. Pp. 229-30 in M. Piccirillo and E. Alliata. eds. The Madaba Map Centenary 1897-1997: Travelling through the Byzantine Umayyad Period. Jerusalem: Studium Biblicum Franciscanum.