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Hesban after 25 years / edited by David Merling, Lawrence T. Geraty ; with contributions by Roger S. Boraas ... [et al.]

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berrien Springs, Mich. : Institute of Archaeology, Andrews University, 1994.Edition: 1st edDescription: xxiii, 379 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0964206005
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS154.9.H57 H47 1994
Contents:
Preface / David Merling -- Congratulations from the American Schools of Oriental Research / Walter E. Rast -- The contributions of American-sponsored excavations in Jordan / Safwan Kh. Tell --
My life in archaeology and the early history of the Heshbon Archaeological Expedition / Siegfried H. Horn -- Hesban and field method, how we dug, and why / Roger S. Boraas -- The journey from Heshbon to Hesban, an account of the evolution of the Heshbon Expedition's scope of research / :ystein S. La Bianca -- Why we dug at Tell Hesban / Lawrence T. Geraty -- Hesban, its geographical setting / Randall W. Younker -- Two roads lead to Esbus / Robert D. Ibach, Jr. -- Hesban and the Ammonites during the Iron Age / James R. Fisher -- Caves, storage facilities, and life at Hellenistic and early Roman Hesban / Larry A. Mitchel --
Byzantine Hesban, the site in its archaeological and historical context / J. Bjornar Storfjell -- The historical/archaeological significance of the Hesban North Church / John I. Lawlor -- Byzantine Christianity at Hesban, its churches and mosaics / Bastiaan Van Elderen -- Hesban in the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods / Bert de Vries -- The Ammonite Ostraca from Tell Hesban / Frank M. Cross Jr., Lawrence T. Geraty -- A summary of small from Tell Hesban / Ralph E. Hendrix --
A note on processing the objects from Tell Hesban / Elizabeth E. Platt -- Everyday life at Hesban through the centuries / Øystein S. LaBianca -- The "pools of Heshbon", as discovered by the Heshbon Expedition / David Merling -- The pottery at Hesban and its relationship to the history of Jordan, an interim Hesban pottery report, 1993 / James A. Sauer -- Tomb types in the Roman and Byzantine cemeteries of Hesban / S. Douglas Waterhouse -- The Hesbon Expedition, retrospects and prospects / Øystein S. LaBianca and Lawrence T. Geraty.
Item type: Ellen G. White Estate Branch Office
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Papers presented at the Heshbon Expedition XXVth anniversary, 1968-1983 Symposium, March 20-21, 1993, sponsored by the Siegfried H. Horn Archaeological Museum in cooperation with Andrews University and the Michigan Humanities Council.

In honor of Siegfried H. Horn, on the 85th anniversary of his birth year.

Horn Museum items are located at 9047 Old US 31.

"Selected bibliography of Siegfried H. Horn, 1986-1993"; also includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / David Merling -- Congratulations from the American Schools of Oriental Research / Walter E. Rast -- The contributions of American-sponsored excavations in Jordan / Safwan Kh. Tell --

My life in archaeology and the early history of the Heshbon Archaeological Expedition / Siegfried H. Horn -- Hesban and field method, how we dug, and why / Roger S. Boraas -- The journey from Heshbon to Hesban, an account of the evolution of the Heshbon Expedition's scope of research / :ystein S. La Bianca -- Why we dug at Tell Hesban / Lawrence T. Geraty -- Hesban, its geographical setting / Randall W. Younker -- Two roads lead to Esbus / Robert D. Ibach, Jr. -- Hesban and the Ammonites during the Iron Age / James R. Fisher -- Caves, storage facilities, and life at Hellenistic and early Roman Hesban / Larry A. Mitchel --

Byzantine Hesban, the site in its archaeological and historical context / J. Bjornar Storfjell -- The historical/archaeological significance of the Hesban North Church / John I. Lawlor -- Byzantine Christianity at Hesban, its churches and mosaics / Bastiaan Van Elderen -- Hesban in the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods / Bert de Vries -- The Ammonite Ostraca from Tell Hesban / Frank M. Cross Jr., Lawrence T. Geraty -- A summary of small from Tell Hesban / Ralph E. Hendrix --

A note on processing the objects from Tell Hesban / Elizabeth E. Platt -- Everyday life at Hesban through the centuries / Øystein S. LaBianca -- The "pools of Heshbon", as discovered by the Heshbon Expedition / David Merling -- The pottery at Hesban and its relationship to the history of Jordan, an interim Hesban pottery report, 1993 / James A. Sauer -- Tomb types in the Roman and Byzantine cemeteries of Hesban / S. Douglas Waterhouse -- The Hesbon Expedition, retrospects and prospects / Øystein S. LaBianca and Lawrence T. Geraty.