Coming in 2015
Long-range plan
Four additional seasons have been planned for the Northeast Insula Project at Hippos of the Decapolis.
2015 – Return with a team to work on the east side (blue area) of the peristyle house.
2016 – Excavation of a small area north of the church and expand work south of the house and church another five meters or until we reach walls (green area). The work in the south will provide a more stable site.
2017 – Finish work in the above areas in first half of the season. Thoroughly clean site and perform a complete digital scan.
2018 – Final season (study season; small team)
2013 Report and Oops . . .
Over the next weeks, we will start adding materials for the 2013 season to the excavation report linked above. However, in the midst of the 2013 season, we discovered a error when we mapped the squares using the new north/south system. So, in the excavation data, we will include updated materials from 2012. The text of this year’s report will discuss both seasons together.
Time flies
Day 20
Today was our last day on the excavation site. A lot of emotions, feelings, friendships and memories were made up on Mount Sussita. This has been a once in a life time opportunity and I’m personally so glad that I was able to experience it. Today was a really low key day. We finished finding the floor in our room, and Darryl and I excavated the pot, which was in large pieces. Hopefully now Rubin the pottery expert will be able to put it back together. We also took a tour of the top of Mount Sussita, which only has about 5 percent of it excavated. Tonight we are all going to the meat restaurant to help celebrate our last evening together. Time has really flown by, and in no time we will all be safe and sound in our families’ arms!
Great day of findings!!!!
Day 19
First I want to apologize for miss spelling House of Tyche; I had been spelling it TK. Other than that today has been an extremely exciting day! Not only did we find floor, but we found large pieces of pottery shards, filling about 4 bucket worth. We also found a pot of some sort that was still mostly intact but was upside down that we plan on extracting tomorrow. Darryl found a double bladed axe head from the byzantine/ Umayyad period, usually used in battle. (How cool is that) The last half of the day we had to do a little bit of cleaning up so we were working in the sun and heat, it was brutal. All in all I would have to say that today was a day of amazing findings!!!!!!
