As June ends, I have finished a draft of the Excavation of the Northeast Insulae, a history of the project. Beginning with the annual reports from each of the seasons, I rewrote the material for consistency of terminology and presentation. I added additional images, and I double-checked all footnotes by putting them into a Zotero database and building the citations and bibliography from that database. This book-length document has twenty pages of introductory material and 269 pages of content including the bibliography.

I will soon turn my attention to the second volume of this Final Report that will provide context for and conclusions from the work done by the Concordia Team at Hippos of the Decapolis.

I have gathered together pertinent material from the coin reports from 2002-2016. Forty-five identifiable coins come from the Northeast Insulae Project. The coins re-affirm our reconstruction of the occupational history of the insulae.

Click to see a list of the coins sorted chronologically.

Click to read a narrative summarizing the implications of the coin finds.

With completion of a new top plan for the Northeast Insulae Project, the “Plans” menu now has a full complement of plans (orthographic projections,DEM, walls, loci, and top plans in three formats). These plan will be used in the upcoming Final Report and offer the most consistent and complete overview of the work on the project.

The work is tedious, but a final report requires a new top plan. Working from an orthographic projection and other photographs, I have begun to construct that plan. [I do have to take breaks every hour or so to rest my eyes and wrist.] The layering possible with Adobe Illustrator makes for useful end products. Above, you see the NEC and some of the surrounding structures. More to come.