The volume (divided in four parts) describes the historical geography of ancient Upper Mesopotamia, trying to reconstruct ancient trades and routes.
Part 1 (geography) deals with the following topics: physical geography (chapter 1) and human geography (chapter 2).
Part 2 (ancient Mesopotamian routes) investigates the geographical distribution of ancient routes, trying to locate the most important sites: chapter 1 is about textual documentation, while chapter 2 focuses on the routes themselves.
Part 3 (borders and limes) reconstructs the Mesopotamian situation before Septimius Severus (chapter 1) and after the Roman submission as a province (chapter 2).
Part 4 (historical events) summarizes the most important historical occurrences in Mesopotamia during Greek and Roman times: chapter 1 describes the Mesopotamian satrapies, chapter 2 focuses on the military interventions of Lucullus and Corbulo, chapter 3 investigates Trajan war against the Parthian empire, chapter 4 deals with military campaign around, chapter 5 tells two episodes from Ammianus Marcellinus' Historiae and eventually chapter 6 summarizes two events from Procopius Caesariensis' De bello Persico.
Tell Mozan is listed in the final index (p. 350): “Tell imposant sur un site insolite”), located on map VII (on p. 59) and mentioned on p. 36 as Mal Tépé: “Ainsi Tell Mozan, à 8 km au sud-est d'Amouda, imposant par sa longueur et son élévation relative, est sur un modeste talweg. Son deuxième nom, Mal Tépé, en turc, la colline au trésor, lui vient probablement d'une trouvaille clandestine”.
[M. De Pietri – October 2019]