Khirbat Faris : rural settlement, continuity and change in Southern Jordan : the Nabatean to modern periods (1st century BC - 20th century AD) /

Khirbat Faris : rural settlement, continuity and change in Southern Jordan : the Nabatean to modern periods (1st century BC - 20th century AD) /

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Author / Creator:McQuitty, Alison, author.
Imprint:Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing LTD, [2020]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Jordan.
Human settlements -- Jordan.
Antiquities.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Human settlements.
Khirbat Faris (Jordan)
Jordan -- Antiquities.
Jordan.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12594950
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Other authors / contributors:Parton, Holly, author.
Petersen, Andrew, author.
Baird, Douglas, author.
ISBN:178969390X
9781789693904
9781789693898
1789693896
Notes:Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 10, 2020).
Summary:This volume is the first of three which chart the temporal and spatial occupational fluctuations at the site of Khirbat Faris in Southern Jordan and the stories of the communities that lived there. The excavation report follows the site and its environs throughout their many phases of use and occupation, from the 13th century BC to the present day.
Other form:Print version: McQuitty, Alison Khirbat Faris : rural settlement, continuity and change in Southern Jordan Summertown, Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing LTD, [2020] 1789693896 9781789693898
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Contents Page
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • List of Appendices
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • with support of the Council for British Research in the Levant
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • List of Appendices
  • Preface and Acknowledgements
  • Part I: Introduction
  • Alison McQuitty
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Alison McQuitty
  • Figure 1.1 Regional plan.
  • Figure 1.2 Area plan around Khirbat Faris.
  • Figure 1.3 Aerial view of Khirbat Tadun to left of modern track and Khirbat Faris APAAME_20070417_DLK-0051 © David L. Kennedy, Aerial Photographic Archive for Archaeology in the Middle East.
  • Figure 1.4 Plan of the Kerak Plateau.
  • Figure 1.5 The Complex Continuum between Nomad and Farmer.
  • Figure 1.6 Aerial view of Al Qasr temple looking northwest. The outline walls of the temple and sanctuary are on the left of the image. The houses in which the carvings illustrated in 1.7 and 1.8 are located are on the right. Compare this image with Figur
  • Figure 1.7 Al Qasr: arch springer reusing a lion carving from a Nabatean temple.
  • Figure 1.8 Al Qasr: arch springer reusing a Helios carving from a Nabatean temple.
  • Figure 1.9 2016: looking south across Khirbat Faris showing modern buildings and orchards encroaching on the site. House 1 is to the right of the image. Contrast this with Figure 2.2, taken in 1998.
  • Chapter 2: Excavation Methodology
  • Alison McQuitty
  • Figure 2.1 Site plan of Khirbat Faris
  • Figure 2.2 Looking northwest at House 1
  • Figure 2.3 Looking north, inside House 2. The front scale rests against the grain-bin/rawiyah SG2100.
  • Figure 2.4 Far IV/Khan. Looking east at end wall of vault, SG2061, and the later window, SG2063. The scale rests on the 1989 ground level.
  • Figure 2.6 Khirbat Faris, looking south. On the right is the 'tower' marking the grave of Faris al-Majali and beneath is the reused architrave inscribed with the shehadah. To the left is the grave of Shilash b. Faris al-Majali.
  • Figure 2.5 Far IV/Khan. Looking west at the exterior wall of the Khan: the original section SG2061 is to the left and the rebuild, SG2062, and the window, SG2063, are to the right. The late courtyard wall, SG2104, is seen on the extreme left.
  • Figure 2.7 April 1988. Looking northeast across the flanks of Wadi Zuqayba to the site of Khirbat Faris on the left. The low mounds of Khirbat Tadun can be see on the right. Below is the low black tent belonging to a family from Faquʿ.
  • Figure 2.8 Roman milestones that were re-used as roof-rollers found on the surface of the site.

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