At this writing, our team for the 2015 is set.  Four Concordia students and six adult volunteers will be in the field starting 19 July. Three of our regulars (Darryl, John, and Jim[Jim]) will be back bringing their significant experience to the team.

Our excavation work in 2015 will focus on the House of Tyche on the eastern side of the site. We will complete work on the domestic space. Part of that work will include probes to bedrock in the southeast corner of the structure, portions of which were in continual use until the time of the destruction of the city. If time allows, we will also open one or more squares on the north side of the Church of the Elderly Woman in order to expose the corner of a building connected to the church.

The November/December 2014 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review includes an article on the Hippos Excavation and the recent publication of Hippos-Sussita of the Decapolis. The article focusses on the House of Tyche, including good photos of the Tyche fresco and an inscription from the entrance hall.

The dates for the summer 2015 excavation at Hippos of the Decapolis are:

19 July to 13 August 2015 

We are planning an optional tour of Jerusalem for three days before the dig.
The dig will be based at Sha’ar HaGolan, some twenty km south of Hippos.

More detail to follow.