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Contents: 1. H. Montgomery, The parting of the ways: Byzantium and Italy in the fifth century; 2. B. Utas, Byzantium seen from Sasanian Iran; 3. J. Retsö, The road to Yarmuk: The Arabs and the fall of the Roman power in the Middle East; 4. R. Holthoer, Byzantine Egypt: Cultures in collision; 5. W. Witakowski, Syrian monophysite propaganda in the fifth to seventh centuries; 6. A. Hultgård, Armenia in change and crisis, The Byzantine impact; 7. S. Sande, The icon and its origin in Graeco-Roman portraiture; 8. B. Kiilerich, Sculpture in the round in the early Byzantine period: Constantinople and the east; 9. Ø. Hjort, Augustus Christianus-Livia Christiana: Sphragis and Roman portrait sculpture; 10. H. Torp, Thessalonique paléochrétienne: Une esquisse; 11. L. Rydén, Gaza, Emesa and Constantinople: Late ancient cities in the light of hagiography; 12. J.O. Rosenqvist, Asia Minor on the threshold of the Middle Ages: Hagiographical glimpses from Lycia and Galatia; 13. G. af Hällström, The duties of an emperor according to Justinian I; 14. A. Berger, Überlegungen zur frühbyzantinischen Stadtplanung in Konstantinopel; 15. P-J Nordhagen, The mosaics of the Great palace of Constantinople: A note on an archaeological puzzle Editors: Rosenqvist, J.O; Ryden, L. Translator: 173 pages.