Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan, Volume 4: The Early Islamic House
Biographical note
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).
Readership
All those interested in the archaeology and material culture of Late Antiquity, the archaeology of Jordan, the transition from the Byzantine to Early Islamic periods, domestic architecture, ceramics, numismatics, ancient glass, epigraphy, paleopathology, and computer applications in archaeeology.
Table of contents
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
Balqā Region: Chronological Implications
Chapter Sixteen: The Tall Jawa Multimedia Information
System
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
Balqā Region: Chronological Implications
Chapter Sixteen: The Tall Jawa Multimedia Information
System
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