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Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World
Brown University
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Providence, RI 02912
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Arab Bedouin tribe that formed a client state of the Byzantine Empire in its proxy war with the Sasanian Empire (through the Lakhmids), which occupied the Syrian steppe.
The Ghassanids were a mostly Christianized tribe, and important supporters of the Monophysite creed.