Continuity and change in Northern Mesopotamia from the Hellenistic to the early Islamic period : proceedings of a colloquium held at the Seminar für Vorderasiatische Altertumskunde, Freie Universitat Berlin, 6th-9th April 1994 / edited by Karin Bartl and Stefan R. Hauser.

Includes bibliographical references.

I. Hellenistic to late Roman - Early Byzantine/Sasanian Periods -- Seleuco-Parthian Levels at Tell Beydar. A Preliminary Report / Rodrigo Martin Galan -- A First Glimpse at Glazed Pottery from Tell Set) Hamad / Christiane Römer -- Some Technological and Petrographic Observations on Post-Assyrian Pottery from Nineveh in Iraq / Murray L. Eiland -- The Production of Pottery in Arsacid Ashur / Stefan R. Hauser -- From Tekrit to the Jaghjagh : Sasanian Sites, Settlement Patterns and Material Culture in Northern Mesopotamia / St John Simpson -- Chemische und mineralogische Untersuchungen von Keramik der hellenistischen bis fruhislamischen Zeit in Nordost-Syrien / Gerwulf Scheider -- II. Islamic Period -- Die fruhislamischen Kalifenresidenzen : Tradition oder Rezeption? / Michael Meinecke -- MadTnat al-Far : The Regional Late Antique Tradition of an Early Islamic Foundation / Claus-Peter Haase -- Early 'Abbasid Coinage, Traces of the Past? / Elizabeth Savage -- Evolution of the Settlement in Mayadin (Syria) / Marie-Odile Rousset -- Early Islamic Glass from Bijan Island (Iraq) / Andrzej Reiche -- Chemical Composition and Technological Studies of Abbasid Glasses from the Bijan Island in Iraq / Malgorzata Daszkiewicz - Jerzy Raabe -- Friedrich Sarre's Die Keramik von Samarra in Perspective / Alastair Northedge -- Al-'Aqr, das islamische Assur. Ein Beitrag zur historischen Topographie in Nordmesopotamien / Stefan Heidemann -- Recent Excavation at Qal'at Ja' bar: New Data for Classifying Syrian Fritware / Cristina Tonghini -- III. Surveys -- Die Umgebung des Lidar Hoyiik von hellenistischer bis fruhislamischer Zeit. Interpretation der Ergebnisse einer Gelandebegehung / Christoph Gerber -- Ball}) Valley Survey. Settlements of the Late Roman/Early Byzantine and Islamic Period / Karin Bartl -- Settlement Pattern in the Upper Khabur (N.E. Syria) from the Achaemenids to the Abbasid Period : Methods and Preliminary Results from a Survey / Bertille Lyonnet -- Hellenistic and Parthian-Roman Pottery from the Upper Khabur Survey : A Preliminary Study / Francesca Dorna-Metzger -- L'occupation abbasside de Nasibin. Typologie et chronologie preiiminaires de la ceYamique prospectee en surface / Alexandrine Guerin -- Settled and Mobile Populations in the Southern GazTra (3rd Through 9th Centuries A.D.) / Reinhard Bernbeck -- The Upper Tigris Area: New Evidence from the Eski Mosul and North Jazira Projects / Warwick Ball -- Tribes and Nomads in Early Islamic Northern Mesopotamia / Chase F. Robinson.

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