Last Week of Excavating

This is the last week of excavation. Next week the work will focus on drawing, photography and packing up materials. Much is being discovered but now everyone senses that time is running put. We have to get as much information as we can in the time remaining.

Here a man posing as Tim Snow takes photos of an oven or tabun. (We are not sure what happened to Tim Snow, the bearded man who came to the excavation. This person/avatar has taken his place.) Note how the scales are placed at different parts of the square to provide scale for the main features of the square.

Here working in Field D is Jerry Mattingly and Melissa Hope while Gerald Keown keeps a careful watch.

Here in the center of the photo is Don Garner. He is pondering over his square in Field B, the gate area. While Amy Stickler holds the surveyors scale awaiting elevations for the square. This is a critical square for understanding the construction of the gate complex. In the background you can see several of the workers resting on the stones of the gate tower.

Here our bus driver Salah keeps a watchful eye on the Fajj. Our fortress was built in this location because it affords a strategic position along the the valley known as the Fajj.

On the left is our Department of Antiquities representative Khalid Tarannah. Khalid is an excellent excavator and he is helps us cooridinate our work with the local workers.   

Here Jerry Mattingly looks over the work in Field D. Jerry is the director the entire project.

The weather has finally heated up in Jordan to the conditions that we have had in years past. Remember to keep checking back for more updates.  

John Wineland

Grayson, Kentucky