After Alexander

After Alexander: The Hellenistic and Early Roman Periods at Pella in Jordan details the excavation of Hellenistic and Early Roman period horizons carried out at Pella in Jordan by the University of Sydney since 1979. It deals with both the stratigraphy of the Hellenistic and Early Roman levels at Pella, and catalogues the pottery recovered from them. Short summaries of relevant work by the College of Wooster are also included.

After a brief introduction to the site and history of excavations, a detailed description of the Hellenistic and Early Roman levels on the main mound of Khirbet Fahl, on nearby Tell Husn, and in select hinterland locations, then follows.

The heart of the study centres on a detailed catalogue of the corpus of some 900 individual Hellenistic-Early Roman pottery fragments, accompanied by outline drawings for each fragment, and a smaller number of images of the more important pieces.

Discussion of the relevance and importance of the material remains to the history and archaeology of the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods at Pella and more broadly to Jordan and the southern Levant concludes the study.

Dr John Tidmarsh is a specialist in the Hellenistic period, with extensive archaeological experience especially at Pella in Jordan and Jebel Khalid in Syria, as well as Nea Paphos in Cyprus and Torone in Greece. He was formerly President of the University of Sydney's Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation and is currently Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens.

• Abbreviations in text
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Part 1: The excavations
• Plates
• Part 2: The catalogue
• Part 3: Overview
• References

Format: paperback
Size: 297 × 210 mm
500 pages
ISBN: 9781743329634
Publication: 01 May 2024
Series: Adapa Monographs