Monday, April 11, 2022

Review of Eisenberg & Ovadiah (eds.), Cornucopia (Segal Festschrift)

BRYN MAYR CLASSICAL REVIEW: Cornucopia: studies in honor of Arthur Segal.
Michael Eisenberg, Asher Ovadiah, Cornucopia: studies in honor of Arthur Segal. Archaeologica, 180. Roma: Editore G. Bretschneider, 2019. Pp. xviii, 326. ISBN 9788876893155 €80,00.

Review by
Leonardo Gregoratti, Durham University/Università di Udine. DerGrego@googlemail.com

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The volume gathers a series of contributions to honour Arthur Segal, who spent most of his career at Haifa University teaching classical archaeology and working on Roman Judea and the Decapolis, focusing his field activity on the city of Hippos-Sussita. As often happens in this genre of publications, the eighteen contributions offered by friends and colleagues deal with different topics, from those directly continuing Segal’s research to those not related at all with his research interests.

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