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Business at the bottom of the world - Moshe Fischer, Mordechai Gichon, and Oren Tal, ‘EN BOQEQ. EXCAVATIONS IN AN OASIS ON THE DEAD SEA. Vol. II. THE OFFICINA. AN EARLY ROMAN BUILDING ON THE DEAD SEA SHORE (Philip von Zabem, Mainz 2000). Pp. 181, 40 ills., 24 plates, 9 plans and sections 9. ISBN 3-8053-1791-3. DM 135.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2015

Andrea Berlin*
Affiliation:
Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota

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Copyright © Journal of Roman Archaeology L.L.C. 2002

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2 Cahill, J., “Chalk vessel assemblages of the Persian/Hellenistic and Early Roman periods,” in de Groot, A. and Ariel, D. T. (edd.), Excavations at the City of David 1978-1985, vol. III. Stratigraphical, environmental and other reports (Jerusalem 1992) 190274 Google Scholar.

3 See most recently Kanellopoulos, C., “The architecture of the shops and colonnaded street in Petra,” BASOR 324 (2001) 922 Google Scholar; Bedal, L., “A pool complex in Petra's city center,” Basor 324 (2001) 2341 Google Scholar; Joukowsky, M. and Basile, J. J., “More pieces in the Petra Great Temple puzzle,” Basor 324 (2001) 4358 Google Scholar.

4 See Bedal ibid. 37-38.

5 Millar, F., The Roman Near East 31 BC–AD 337 (London 1993) 403–5Google Scholar; Isaac, B., “The Babatha Archive,” The Near East under Roman rule. Selected papers (Leiden 1998) 159–81Google Scholar. On the location of Maoza, see Broshi, M., “Agriculture and economy in Roman Palestine: seven notes on the Babatha Archive,” IEJ 42 (1992) 232 Google Scholar.

6 Isaac ibid. 168; this is Babatha papyrus no. 16.

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8 Ibid. 571-84, esp. 583.

9 Ibid. 583.