List of Plates

  1.   A rare depiction of a mounted Germanic warrior. (Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte, Halle)

  2.   Silver spurs from a third century Germanic noble’s grave. (British Museum, author’s photo)

  3.   Sarmatian warriors depicted on Trajan’s Column. (Author’s photo)

  4.   Roman cavalry helmet. (Rijksmuseum voor Oudheden, Leiden, photo Michiel)

  5.   Page from a medieval copy of the Notitia Dignitatum showing the cities under the control of the Dux Mogontiacensis. (Bodleian manuscript)

  6.   A reconstructed ship of the Roman Rhine fleet. (The Museum of Ancient Shipping, Mainz)

  7.   General Stilicho, his wife Serena and son Eucherius. (Monza Cathedral)

  8.   Alan wearing scale armour and carrying a lance. (Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg)

  9.   Fishing boat of a type commandeered by the Vandals. (Bardo Museum, author’s photo)

10.   Transports for cavalry horses. (Bardo Museum, author’s photo)

11.   The Dominus Julius’ villa in Africa Proconsularis. (Bardo Museum, author’s photo)

12.   Luxury ceramics known as African sigillata. (Bardo Museum, author’s photo)

13.   North African merchant ship. (Bardo Museum, author’s photo)

14.   Roman soldiers defending a city from marauding tribesmen. (Museum für Byzantinische Kunst, Berlin)

15.   Frontispiece from the Notitia Dignitatum. (Bodleian manuscript)

16.   Silver plate celebrating the appointment of Flavius Ardabur Aspar as Consul of Africa. (National Archaeological Museum, Florence, photo by Sailko)

17.   The ruins of Roman Carthage. (Author’s photo)

18.   A necklace and earrings from the so-called Carthage Treasure. (British Museum, author’s photo)

19.   A fifth-century funerary mosaic depicting a Roman banker from Thabraca (Tabarka). (Bardo Museum, author’s photo)

20.   Fifth-century funeral mosaic of a ship owner. (Bardo Museum, author’s photo)

21.   The gravestone of a priest from the Basilica of Vitalis (Sbeitla) in Byzacena. (Bardo Museum, author’s photo)

22.   Fourth-century mosaic of Ulysses tied to a mast to resist the Sirens. (Bardo Museum, author’s photo)

23.   A fifth-century East Roman infantryman. (Istanbul Archeological Museum, author’s photo)

24.   The military port of Carthage. (Author’s photo)

25.   The Vandals’ fourteen-day sack of Rome, 455. (Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow)

26.   Vandal horseman riding in front of a villa appropriated from its former Roman owner. (British Museum, author’s photo)

27.   A Vandal hunting. (British Museum)

28.   Items from a Vandal woman’s grave in North Africa. (British Museum, author’s photo)

29.   Engraving on a sixth-century Vandal belt buckle. (British Museum, author’s photo)

30.   Moor light cavalry. (Trajan’s column, Rome, author’s photo)

31.   Vandal coin depicting a Vandal. (British Museum)

32.   A reconstruction of a dromon. (Model Ship Master)

33.   Mosaic depicting the Emperor Justinian surrounded by ecclesiastic and secular officials and guardsmen. (Church of San Vitale, Ravenna)

34.   Silver dish depicting a sixth-century East Roman soldier riding down a Lombard. (Photo James Steakley)

35.   Sixth-century Egyptian ivory showing late Roman troops. (Rheinisches Landes Museum Trier)

36.   Hunting scene from the late-fifth/early-sixth century. (Bardo Museum, author’s photo)

37.   Carthaginian water cisterns. (La Malga, Tunisia, author’s photo)