1.1.Floor mosaic. Piazzale delle Corporazioni, Ostia, Italy
1.2.Relief of a Palmyrene ship. Palmyra Museum, Syria
1.3.Scylla and her victims: the “Scylla group.” Museo Archeologico, Sperlonga, Italy
2.1.Celsus Library façade, Ephesus
2.2.Celsus Library doorway, Ephesus
2.3.Celsus Library dedicatory inscription, Ephesus
3.1.Plan of the Piazzale delle Corporazioni, Ostia, Italy
4.1.Networks with partial and full connections
5.1.Hittite rock relief at Fıraktın
5.2.Hittite sacred pool at the spring of Eflatun Pınar
5.3.Large rock reliefs above the canal head at Khinis
5.4.Neo-Assyrian reliefs at Birkleyn
5.5.Garden scene from the North Palace of Nineveh
5.6.Discovery of the Hammurabi stele at Susa, 1901
6.1.Arch of Trajan at Beneventum
6.2.Alimenta relief from the internal passage of the Arch of Trajan at Beneventum
6.3.Honorific portrait statue of Dometeinos from Aphrodisias
6.4.Gravestone of Theokritos from the Black Sea coast, perhaps Tomis
6.5.Linen shroud from Saqqara, Egypt
7.1.Two women, one playing a lyre: Red-figure pelike, Polygnotos group
8.1.Aphrodite fends off Pan, as Eros watches: First-century BCE marble from Delos
9.1.A man at prayer: Gold-plated bronze figure from Larsa
10.1.Marble statue of Asclepius. Archaeological Museum, Epidaurus, Greece
10.2.Bas-relief of Bes. Temple of Hathor, Abydos, Egypt
11.1.Red-figure Attic bowl. Archaeological Museum Spina, Ferrara, Italy
13.1.The Achaemenid palace of Persepolis
13.3.The palace of Pāṭaliputra: excavated remains
13.4.Rock edict of Aśoka in Greek and Aramaic: Kandahar Edict I
13.5.Silver tetradrachm of king Menander I
13.6.Silver tetradrachm of king Antialcidas
13.7.Garuda pillar of Heliodoros, Besnegar, India
13.8.Silver tetradrachm of King Azes I
13.9.Silver tetradrachm of King Phraates IV
14.3.Rosetta stone reconstruction by Claire Thorne and Richard Parkinson
14.4.Lunette of the Triumphal Stela of Piye
14.5.Naophorous statue of Udjahorresne
14.6.Fragment of the arch of the Kabret stela
15.1.Nike of Paeonius, Olympia, Greece. Archaeological Museum of Olympia
15.2.King Shapur I of Iran and Roman emperors. Rock relief, Naqsh-i-Rustem, Iran
16.1.Tridrachma. Perge, Pamphylia
16.2.Eight-assaria piece. Pergamum, Mysia
16.3.Eight-assaria piece. Pergamum, Mysia
16.4.Bigate denarius. M. Junius Silvanus
16.5.Serrate denarius. Q. Antonius Balbus
16.6.Denarius, ca. 2 BCE–4 CE. Lugdunum
16.7.Denarius, 86 BCE. Roman Republic
16.8.Denarius. 49 BCE. C. Claudius Marcellus and L. Cornelius Lentulus
16.9.Cistophorus, 39 BCE. Ephesus. Mark Antony and Octavia
16.10.Lydia, electrum trite. ca. 650–625 BCE
16.11.Gold stater. Macedon. Philip II
16.12.Didrachma. Corinth. ca. 345–307 BCE
16.13.Tetradrachma. Athens. 454–404 BCE
16.14.Gold stater. Macedon. Alexander the Great
16.15.Tetradrachma. Macedon, Alexander the Great
16.16.Tetradrachma, 297–281 BCE. Lampsacus. Lysimachus
16.17.Tetradrachma, 63/64 CE. Antioch. Nero
16.18.Three assaria? (unmarked). Aphrodisias, Caria. ca. 238–241 CE
16.19.Three assaria. Ancyra, Phrgyia. ca. 193–235 CE
16.20.Two assaria? (unmarked). Aphrodisias, Caria. 200–260 CE
16.21.One assarion. Silandus, Lydia. ca. 200–250 CE
16.22.As. Roman Republic. 211–201 BCE
16.23.Denarius. Roman Republic. 214–211 BCE
16.24.Quinarius. Roman Republic. 214–211 BCE
16.25.Sestertius. Roman Republic. 214–211 BCE
16.26.Sixteen asses. Roman Republic, C. Alburius Geminus. 134 BCE
16.27.Five assaria. Side, Pamphylia. Valerian I
16.28.Ten assaria. Side, Pamphylia. Gallienus
16.29.Bronze coin of Geta revalued in 274 CE. Side, Pamphylia
16.30.Ten-assaria piece of Valerian II revalued as five in 274 CE. Side, Pamphylia
16.31.Ten-assaria piece of Gallienus revalued as five in 274 CE
16.32.Aurelianianus. Serdica. Aurelian
16.33.Aurelianianus. Serdica. Aurelian
16.34.Nummus. Alexandria. Diocletian
16.35.Nummus. Antioch. Diocletian
16.36.Maiorina. Siscia. Julian II
16.37.Radiate (coin of 2 d.c.). Cyzicus. Diocletian
16.38.Nummus. Lugdunum. Constantine I
16.39.Nummus. Nicomedia. Galerius
16.40.Nummus. Alexandria. Licinius I
17.1.Marble Plan of Rome fragments
17.2.Peutinger Map, part of Segment 4
17.3.Outline layout of the original, complete Peutinger Map
17.4.Globe-map image imagined within the apse of a Late Roman aula
17.5.Constantin von Tischendorf’s drawing of his portable sundial disc acquired in Memphis, Egypt, around 1859
17.6.Portable sundial found at Aphrodisias, Turkey, in 1963: drawing of the reverse
(All maps made by the Ancient World Mapping Center and reproduced with permission)
1.1.World of the Eastern Mediterranean and beyond
4.1.Regions and sites mentioned in the text
5.1.Sites mentioned in the text
6.1.Extent of the Roman Empire in the first centuries CE
10.1.Regions and sites mentioned in the text
12.1.Sites mentioned in the text
13.1.Major empires of the third century BCE
17.1.Roman Empire around 200 CE
17.2.Names on the portable sundial found at Aphrodisias marked on a modern locator map, with a route added
17.1.Names and latitudes inscribed in Greek on four portable sundials
17.2.Names and latitudes inscribed in Latin on five portable sundials