Late antique Adiabene under Sasanian rule

Throughout the course of the Sasanian period, the region of Adiabene constantly played a strategic role thanks to its geographic location; at the same time, the literary evidence concerning Adiabene potentially offers a unique insight into the area, on its heterogeneous society and on the way the central administration coped with its particular circumstances. In the last decade a renewed interest in the frontier areas of Late-Antique Upper Mesopotamia has fostered the appearance of studies specifically devoted to this remarkable region