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

559 Pages·2009·9.129 MB·English

by  Michele Daviau

Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan
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Culture and History of the
Ancient Near East
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VOLUME 11.4
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Excavations at Tall Jawa,
Jordan
Volume 4, The Early Islamic House
by
P. M. Michèle Daviau
with contributions by
Martin Beckmann
Debra C. Foran
David Hemsworth
Nola J. Johnson
Margaret A. Judd
Heather Siemens
Alan Walmsley
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2010
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ISSN 1566-2055
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Frontispiece: Building 600 at Tall Jawa; possible reconstruction,
Martin Beckmann (1995)
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This book is dedicated to the memory of Fr. Michele Piccirillo, ofm,
a friend and colleague whose archaeological research and publications
enriched us all and whose commitment to the preservation of the
Christian heritage of Jordan resulted in a lasting legacy.
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CONTENTS
Preface ......................................................................................... xiii
Excavation and Survey Team Members .................................... xvii
List of Tables, Charts, and Appendices ..................................... xxiii
List of Illustrations ...................................................................... xxv
PART ONE
OVERVIEW
Chapter One Tall Jawa: The Site and Its Setting .................. 3
P. M. Michèle Daviau
Chapter Two Research Strategy and Recording
Techniques .............................................................................. 15
P. M. Michèle Daviau
PART TWO
STRATIGRAPHIC EXCAVATION OF BUILDING 600
Chapter Three Field D: Building 600 .................................... 25
P. M. Michèle Daviau
Chapter Four The Mosaic Floors and Their Construction
Techniques .............................................................................. 91
Debra C. Foran
Chapter Five Painted Plaster in Building 600 ........................ 107
N. J. Johnson
Chapter Six Architectural Features in Building 600 ............... 121
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Chapter Seven The Multiple Burial in Building 600 at
Tall Jawa ................................................................................. 143
Margaret A. Judd
PART THREE
POTTERY AND ARTEFACTS
Chapter Eight The Pottery: A Functional and Formal
Typology ................................................................................. 171
P. M. Michèle Daviau
Chapter Nine The Ceramic Lamps from Building 600 ......... 293
Martin Beckmann and P. M. Michèle Daviau
Chapter Ten Inscribed Lamps ................................................ 341
N. J. Johnson
Chapter Eleven Inscribed Vessels, Ostraca, and Plaster ......... 351
N. J. Johnson
Chapter Twelve The Artefacts from Building 600 ................. 367
P. M. Michèle Daviau with Martin Beckmann and N. J. Johnson
Chapter Thirteen The Early Islamic Coin Hoard ................. 393
Alan Walmsley
Chapter Fourteen Glass Vessels and Lamps ........................... 415
Heather A. Siemens
PART FOUR
CONCLUSIONS
Chapter Fifteen The Settlement of Tall Jawa in the
Balqā(cid:120) Region: Chronological Implications ........................... 467
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PART FIVE
MULTIMEDIA PROGRAMME
Chapter Sixteen The Tall Jawa Multimedia Information
System ..................................................................................... 479
David Hemsworth
Bibliography ................................................................................ 499
Subject Index .............................................................................. 533
Geographical Name Index ......................................................... 537
DVD with List of Loci, Databases and associated Illustrations for
pottery, mould-made lamps, glass, architecture and artefacts, painted
plaster, and the site itself.
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PREFACE
Archaeological excavation is a challenge; the unexpected is always to
be expected. Such was the case with the excavation of the site of Tall
Jawa, south of ‘Amman. What should have been an Iron Age site with
evidence for earlier occupation, especially in the Early Bronze Age,
turned out to be an Iron Age site with later settlement during the
Byzantine and Early Islamic periods. The discovery of a rich ceramic
corpus of early Islamic pottery in the collapse of a building adjacent
to a late Iron Age house (B800) was a great stimulus to expand my
areas of interest and investigate the Early Islamic remains in detail. We
were fortunate that one complete structure was available on the land
of Mr. Hamad Tafi leh for excavation during fi ve successive seasons
(1991–1995).
It was thanks to the support and encouragement of the Department
of Antiquities of Jordan, especially Dr. Safwan Tell, Director General
of Antiquities in 1991–1994, that our excavation programme was able
to become independent from the Madaba Plains Project during the
1992 fi eld season. The Tall Jawa Project developed its own research
strategy, working on both the Iron Age and Early Islamic remains, and
training North American, European, and Jordanian students in our
fi eld methods and recording techniques. A special thanks is extended to
Nazmieh Rida Tawfi q, Department of Antiquities representative to the
Tall Jawa Project, who generously shared her expertise and vast experi-
ence with the students and volunteers on our team, thus contributing
enormously to the education of us all. The support of the Department
of Antiquities was continued by Dr. Ghazi Bisheh, Director General
of Antiquities in 1995, and by Adeeb Abu Shumais, representative of
the Department of Antiquities during our fi nal fi eld season.
Beginning with the 1991 season, preliminary reports that included a
summary of our work on the Early Islamic building appeared in Echos
du monde classique/Classical Views (Daviau 1992a), as well as in the Annual
of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan (Daviau 1992b, 1993, 1994,
1996), with the exception of the fi nal fi eld season in 1995.1 During
1 Detailed annual reports prepared by Daviau for the 1991–1995 seasons were sub-
mitted to the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, along with a set of photographs.
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