Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan, Volume 4: The Early Islamic House

Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17552-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 11/4, 540 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 1089 g

Reihe: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East / Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan

Much of the archaeology of Late Antique period remains in Jordan has concentrated on public buildings: churches, mosques, theatres, baths, and their major architectural features, such as mosaic floors. In this fourth report of the excavations at Tall Jawa in central Jordan, a single house with a rich repertoire of pottery, mould-made lamps, glass, and a small coin hoard, appears to span the transition period from the Late Byzantine to the Early Islamic period. Details of the construction of the building itself and of its mosaic pavements, the technology of its ceramic corpus, analysis of its inscribed lamps, painted plaster, objects and a small coin hoard all contribute to an understanding of village life for people during a period of linguistic, religious, and political transition.

"The publication of Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan, Volume 4: The Early Islamic House is an important contribution that adds not only to the growing body of evidence for central Transjordan, but also to our understanding of non-urban Islamic archaeology and the seventh- to eighth-century transition."
- Asa Eger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Autoren/Hrsg.

Daviau, Michèle

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One: Tall Jawa: The Site and Its Setting
Chapter Two: Research Strategy and Recording
Techniques
Chapter Three: Field D: Building 600
Chapter Four: The Mosaic Floors and Their Construction
Techniques
Chapter Five: Painted Plaster in Building 600
Chapter Six: Architectural Features in Building 600
Chapter Seven: The Multiple Burial in Building 600 at
Tall Jawa
Chapter Eight: The Pottery: A Functional and Formal
Typology
Chapter Nine: The Ceramic Lamps from Building 600
Chapter Ten: Inscribed Lamps
Chapter Eleven: Inscribed Vessels, Ostraca, and Plaster
Chapter Twelve: The Artefacts from Building 600
Chapter Thirteen: The Early Islamic Coin Hoard
Chapter Fourteen: Glass Vessels and Lamps
Chapter Fifteen: The Settlement of Tall Jawa in the
Balqa Region: Chronological Implications
Chapter Sixteen: The Tall Jawa Multimedia Information
System

Über Autor(innen)

P. M. Michèle Daviau, Ph. D. (1990) in Near Eastern Studies, University of Toronto, is professor of Near Eastern Archaeology at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is director of the Wadi ath-Thamad Project (northern Moab) and has published extensively on the archaeology of Jordan, especially the Excavations at Tall Jawa, Volume 1 (Brill 2003), Volume 2 (Brill 2002), and is an editor of Crossing Jordan (Equinox 2007).