Tabula Imperii Romani - Iudaea Palestina. Eretz Israel in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods, 1994, 264 p. -

This new volume in the international project of mapping the Roman Empire, the Tabula Imperii Romani, covers the area of the Land of Israel west of the Jordan River, with the addition of the Golan and Sinai. The sites and place-names shown - including cities, villages, synagogues and churches, monasteries and road stations, aqueducts and roads - are those of the Roman and Byzantine provinces of Judaea and Palaestina, plotted on the basis of archaeological discoveries from the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods. The accompanying Gazetteer contains short descriptions of the sites, comprehensive references to ancient sources (including epigraphic and numismatic material) and bibliographical references to modern studies. This volume contains maps and a gazetteer recording 1,250 sites (including settlements and geographical features) in Eretz Israel in the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine periods. Of this total, some 524 sites are known and identified from literary sources, while the others are known opnly from archaeological research and caanot be identified by their ancient names. The 5 maps accompanying the gazetteer include one of the entire research area of western Palestine and Sinaï, two of Iudae-Palaestina north and south, and two showing synagogues and churches respectively.