Another season is winding down

Greetings,

By the time you read this most of the team should be home. It was another productive season for us. Now only three of the team remain in Jordan to do final paperwork before they head home (Daniel Hoffman, Jerry Mattingly, Tim Snow).

On the final day off from excavating the team visited two important Nabatean sites. This one is Dhat Ras you can read more about it on our website at this address: http://www.vkrp.org/studies/historical/dhat-ras/

The second site is al-Qasr you can see the team standing in front of the ruins of this temple.

Much of the work this past week was completing the documentation process. This involves a great deal of drawing and photography. Here you can see Tim Snow taking final photos in the gate area of the fortress.

Our site has a number of fine capitals which line the gate area. You can read more about it here: http://www.vkrp.org/studies/historical/capitals/info/capitals-Mudaybi.asp

This season in the wall of the Byzantine caravansary another fragment of a capital was found.

Adam Bean spotted a fragment of another capital volute in a well at Kerak Castle, pictured here.

Here is another of the final photos.

Here you can see an overview of Field D at the end of the season.

Look for another post later as we wind the season down.

John Wineland

Grayson, Kentucky