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Article: Hatra: Geschichte und Kultur einer Karawanstadt im romisch-parthischen Mesopotamien.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of the American Oriental Society
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- July 1, 2004
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Hatra: Geschichte und Kultur einer Karawanstadt im romisch-parthischen Mesopotamien. By MICHAEL SOMMER. Sonderbande der Antiken Welt. Mainz: PHILIPP VON ZABERN, 2003. Pp. 83, ill. [euro]34.80.
The opening paragraph of Michael Sommer's slim volume, roughly translated, begins: "We write that in the year 117 A.D. all of Mesopotamia was under Roman control. All Mesopotamia? No. A small city, peopled by obstinate Arabs, never ceased resistance to this forceful penetration." European readers, and doubtless some Americans, will recognize an allusion to the series Asterix le Gaulois and the one village that continued to defy Julius Caesar. The theme of resistance, and of ...
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