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As for onomastics, no region in the ancient world has revealed such integration of personal names from so many regions and cultural spheres of influence (cf. Sartre 2007; and now above all the monumental volume by Yon 2018a. For a recent investigation of the nomenclature attested at Dura-Europos see Grassi 2012, and for Hatrene names see Marcato 2018. Ilan 2002–2012 is a lexicon of Jewish names in four volumes.). Near the Roman colony of Berytus, a dedication in Latin was set up by a lady called Flavia Nicolais Saddane, sporting Roman, Greek, and Semitic elements in her name (CIL III, 6680; cf. Kaizer 2005). From elsewhere in the Lebanon comes the funerary “Qartaba column” depicting two couples whose personal names combine classical and Arabic roots (Fowlkes-Childs and Seymour 2019: 138–139, no.98). Though it remains highly problematic to establish a person’s ethnicity on the basis of nomenclature, studies of onomastics may serve to reveal the persistence of indigenous layers below classical surfaces which can otherwise be hard to pin down. The material brought together in the forthcoming Volume VI of the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names on Syria, Mesopotamia, Palestine, and beyond, prepared by the Oxford-based LGPN team directed by Rober Parker, in collaboration with Jean-Baptiste Yon, will therefore be of enormous assistance in the discussion of issues of cultural interaction in the wider region (see also Kaizer et al. forthcoming, emanating from the conference on “Greek Onomastics East of the Mediterranean: Naming and Culture in the Roman Near East and the Greek Far East,” which took place in 2019 around the material that is being prepared for LGPN VI).