Archaeology Odyssey

For the excavations until 1992, see Andrea Bignasca Rolf A. Stucky, Petra—Ez Zantur I., and Ergebnisse der Schweizerisch-Liechtensteinischen Ausgrabungen: 1988–1992 (Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, 1996). For 1993 to the present, see the annual reports in Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan (in English).

See Fiema, “The Petra Project,” American Center of Oriental Research Newsletter 5 (1993), pp. 1–3; and “Une église byzantine à Pétra,” Archéologia 302 (1994), pp. 26–35. The scholarly literature on this important monument (and the papyrus scrolls) is just now taking shape.

Summarized in Philip Hammond, The Temple of the Winged Lions, Petra, Jordan: 1974–1990 (Fountain Hills, AZ: Petra Publishers, 1996).

For a full bibliography of the Kasr el-Bint Faroun, see McKenzie, Architecture of Petra, pp. 135–136.

See Kirkbride, “A Short Account of the Excavations at Petra in 1955–1956,” Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 4–5 (1960), pp. 117–122; Peter Parr, “Excavations at Petra, 1958–1959,” Palestine Exploration Quarterly 12 (1960), pp. 124–135. Unfortunately, no final report has been written in either of these excavations.

For a full bibliography of the Temenos Gate, see McKenzie, Architecture of Petra, pp. 132–133.

See Leigh-Ann Bedal, “A Paradeisos in Petra: New Light on the ‘Lower Market’,” Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 43 (1999).

For sacred theaters in the Near East, see Arthur Segal, Theaters in Roman Palestine and Provincia Arabia (Leiden: Brill, 1995). For other ideas on the function of the Great Temple, see Joukowsky, Petra Great Temple, pp. 125–128; Joseph Basile in Joukowsky, Petra Great Temple, p. 206; Erika Schluntz in Joukowsky, Petra Great Temple, pp. 220–222; and Schluntz, From Royal to Public Assembly Space: The Transformation of the “Great Temple” Complex at Petra, Jordan, Ph.D (Brown Univ. 1999).

For a full bibliography of the Great Temple excavations to 1998, see Joukowsky, Petra Great Temple, pp. xxxv-xxxix. Yearly reports appear in the Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan and in the “Archaeology in Jordan” feature in the American Journal of Archaeology.

See Zbigniew Fiema, “The Roman Street in the Petra Project,” Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 42 (1998), pp. 395–424.