Contents

pp v-vi

List of Illustrations

pp vii-xiv

Acknowledgements

pp xv-xvi

Notes on Contributors

pp xvii-xix

Series Editor's Preface

pp xx-xxii

1 - Introduction

pp 1-18

PART I - SURPLUS PRODUCTION, URBAN GROWTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT

pp 19-20

2 - Sasanian Cities: Archaeological Perspectives on the Urban Economy and Built Environment of an Empire

pp 21-50

3 - Palaeoecological Insights into Agri-Horti-Cultural and Pastoral Practices Before, During and After the Sasanian Empire

pp 51-73

4 - Animal Exploitation and Subsistence on the Borders of the Sasanian Empire: From the Gorgan Wall (Iran) to the Gates of the Alans (Georgia)

pp 74-96

PART II - FRONTIERS AND FRONTIER LANDSCAPES

pp 97-98

5 - The Northern and Western Borderlands of the Sasanian Empire: Contextualising the Roman/Byzantine and Sasanian Frontier

pp 99-125

6 - Connectivity on a Sasanian Frontier: Route Systems in the Gorgan Plain of North-East Iran

pp 126-150

7 - The Sasanian Empire and the East: A Summary of the Evidence and its Implications for Rome

pp 151-178

PART III - CONTESTED TERRITORIES AND CULTURAL CONTACTS BETWEEN PERSIA AND ROME

pp 179-180

8 - Minority Religions in the Sasanian Empire: Suppression, Integration and Relations with Rome

pp 181-198

9 - A Contested Jurisdiction: Armenia in Late Antiquity

pp 199-220

10 - Cultural Contacts Between Rome and Persia at the Time of Ardashir I (c. ad 224–40)

pp 221-238

PART IV - IMPERIAL POWER BALANCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

pp 239-240

11 - Innovation and Stagnation: Military Infrastructure and the Shifting Balance of Power Between Rome and Persia

pp 241-267

12 - The Arabian Frontier: A Keystone of the Sasanian Empire

pp 268-283

13 - The India Trade in Late Antiquity

pp 284-304

Index

pp 305-314