Contextualizing Imperial Borderlands

9th Century BCE – 9th Century CE and Beyond

Edited by Robert Rollinger Edited by Julian Degen

Extent: 525 pages

Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag

Subjects: Ancient Near East, Classical Studies

Series: Afro-Eurasian Transformations ‒ Ancient Worlds and Beyond

Series volume number: 1

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(September 2026)

ISBN: 9783447125161

6.7 x 9.45 inches

Price: $126.00

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Synopsis
Contents
Contributing Authors

The first volume of the new series Afro-Eurasian Transformations ‒ Ancient Worlds and Beyond comprises a collection of papers whose overarching topic pertains to the study of territories situated beyond direct imperial control. Nonetheless, more subtle and elusive traces of imperial impact can be detected in this geographical area.

The purpose of this collection is to introduce this expanse as “imperial borderlands”. In addition, it includes a variety of contributions from experts in selected fields. With its broad temporal and geographical scope, ranging from the 1st millennium BC to the end of antiquity and beyond, covering the Afro-Eurasia worlds, the volume presents the first concentrated study on the phenomenon of imperial borderlands.

Preface

Introduction
Robert Rollinger & Julian Degen
Imperial Borderlands: Methodological Challenges and Theoretical Frameworks

The Ancient African and Near Eastern Worlds
Gebhard JSelz
The Amorite Wall, “restraining the nomads”
Matt Waters
Dēr: The Linchpin of the Elamite-Babylonian Borderlands
Simonetta Ponchia
The Iranian Highlands as a borderland of the Neo-Assyrian empire: notes on cultural and political dynamics
Piotr Głogowski
The Phoenician-Punic World and the Roman Imperial Structure: The Spatial Dimension of the Neo-Phoenician Identity
Angelika Lohwasser
Kush as Borderland and its Borderlands

Central Asia and Beyond
Marco Ferrario
“The Year in Which the Mede Came” Empire-Building and Borderscape Fantasies in Early Teispid-Achaemenid Central Asia
Krzysztof Nawotka
The Gates of Alexander and the Caucasian Wall of Derbent
Florian Schwarz
The Oxus Region from the Sasanian to the Early Islamic Period: Dynamics of a Boderland ca. 4th to 10th cc
Melanie Malzahn & Hannes AFellner
The Pre-Islamic Tarim Region as Borderland(s)
Eberhard WSauer, Jebrael Nokandeh & Hamid Omrani Rekavandi
The Gorgan Wall: Sign of Fading Sasanian Power or Masterpiece of Military Engineering?
Giorgio Rota
Some Remarks on Safavid Persia and Its Vassal States

Maritime Borderlands
John OHyland
The Aegean Borderlands of the Achaemenid Persian Empire
Rolf Strootman
Coastal Imperialism in a Central Mediterranean Border Zone: Southern Italy and Sicily, c400–200 BCE
Erich Kistler, Martin Mohr & Jessika Armbrüster
Monte Iato in the Third Century BCE: Navigating Borders and Power as a Minor Player Between Syracuse, Carthage, and Rome
Agnieszka Wojciechowska
Pelusium: from “the Stronghold of Egypt” to Hellenistic town

Borderlands of the Greater Roman World
Christian Rollinger
Desertum nostrum: Pre-Islamic Arabia as Imperial Borderlands
Kai Ruffing
Hadrian’s Wall
Sven Günther
Imperare per definitionem: Framing Picts and Scots in the Long 4th Century AD

Imperial Borderlands: Dynamics and Concepts
Walter Pohl
Conditions and Consequences of the Dissolution of the Roman Empire: a View from the Borders
Mischa Meier
The Hunnic ‘Empire’ as Shadow Empire? Imperial Borderlands and the Limitations of a Concept

Indices

Edited by Robert Rollinger
Edited by Julian Degen

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