Umm el-Jimal

Umm el-Jimal: A Frontier Town and its Landscape in Northern Jordan. Vol. I. Fieldwork 1972-1981. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series No. 26. Portsmouth, Rhode Island. 1998.

By Bert de Vries with contributions by J.W. Betlyon, R.M. Brown, L. de Veaux, D.L. Kennedy, C.J. Lenzen, S.T. Parker, J.A. Sauer, and M.R. Toplyn

 

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword

Section I: Introduction: The research design

1. Bert de Vries, Research goals and implementation
2. Bert de Vries, Previous research

Section II: Surface Remains of Umm el-Jimal and its surroundings

3. David Kennedy, The Umm el-Jimal area: maps, air photographs, surface survey
4. Bert de Vries, The plan of the Byzantine town

Section III: Stratigraphy

5. James A. Sauer and Bert de Vries, The 1974 soundings
6. S. Thomas Parker, The barracks
7. S. Thomas Parker, The town defences
8. Part 1. S. Thomas Parker, The so-called Nabataean temple
Part 2. Laurette de Veaux and S. Thomas Parker, The so-called Nabataean temple: a reexamination
9. Robin M. Brown, The praetorium
10. Robin M. Brown, House XVIII

Section IV: Material remains

11. S. Thomas Parker, The pottery from the 1977 season
12. John Wilson Betlyon, The coins from the 1974 soundings and the 1977 excavations
13. Michael R. Toplyn, Skeletal remains from the 1977season

Section V: Historical conclusions

14. Bert de Vries, Toward a history of Umm el-Jimal in late antiquity

Bibliography of works cited

 

 

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