The Melammu Project

The Heritage of Mesopotamia and the Ancient Near East

Assyrians in Late Roman times (1)

Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Assyrian identity in Christian Era 12 Assyrian Identity 12.03 Assyrian identity in Christian Era	Keywords Assyrians Harran
Period 6th century CE Byzantine Empire	Channel Byzantine philosophers and scholars

Text
Zosimus, Historia Nova 3.13:
[In the fifth century] Harran became … a town of the frontier that “divides Romans from Assyrians.”

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Zosimus, Historia Nova 3.13

Bibliography

Simo Parpola

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