Unmasking Roman Pella.

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dc.contributor.authorO'Hea, M.
dc.contributor.editorRepper, R.
dc.contributor.editorBishop, M.
dc.contributor.editorBewley, R.
dc.date.issued2025
dc.description.abstractThe lack of a visible urban infrastructure for Roman Pella has long frustrated its excavators. Pella has no identifiable agora or macellum, no gymnasion, theatre - although it does have an odeon - no nymphaeum, no cardo or decumani. Using evidence gleaned from the Pella Hinterland Survey, DAJ excavations in Area IX and aerial photographs courtesy of David Kennedy’s curated APAAME project, this paper challenges Smith’s published suggestion from the ‘80s and early ‘90s that some if not most of these missing buildings might have been located in that part of the Wadi Jirm el-Moz between the tell to the north and Husn to the south. Finally, I want to add a new architectural feature to the urban landscape of Pella.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityMargaret O’Hea
dc.identifier.citationReframing the “Desert Frontier” Studies in the ancient Near East and northern Arabia in honour of David Kennedy., 2025 / Repper, R., Bishop, M., Bewley, R. (ed./s), Ch.5, pp.65-93
dc.identifier.isbn9781743329955
dc.identifier.orcidO'Hea, M. [0000-0002-4331-9965]
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2440/144632
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Sydney Press
dc.publisher.placeSydney
dc.relation.grantARC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAdapa Monographs
dc.rights© 2025
dc.source.urihttps://sydneyuniversitypress.com/collections/series-adapa-monographs/products/189513
dc.subjectLevantine archaeology
dc.subjectRoman architectural decoration
dc.subjectRoman urban architecture
dc.subject.meshArchaeology
dc.titleUnmasking Roman Pella.
dc.typeBook chapter
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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