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Assyrians in Late Roman times (1)

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12 Assyrian Identity

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

Green 1992, 52Green, Tamara. The City of the Moon God, Religious Traditions of Harran. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 114. Leiden, New York, Cologne: E. J. Brill 1992.

Simo Parpola


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