2016

The 2016 Season begins

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The Concordia Team has completed its first day of excavation at Hippos Sussita. For each day of the season, we are preparing 3D models and posting them here to document our progress. Today the team opened work in two areas:

  • A building north of the church and related to it (Square DP44)
  • The east storage room of the House of Tyche completing work begun last year (Square DR40)

The work in DP44 has begun to expose more of W583. Below is the model:

DP44 on 3 July 2016
by Dr. Mark Schuler
on Sketchfab

The work in DR40 seems to be revealing the west face of W1298. Here is its model:

DR40 on 3 July 2016
by Dr. Mark Schuler
on Sketchfab

Progress is noted, but we have much work to do before we can draw any conclusions.

 

In just over two weeks . . .

Getting the gear

I will be loading my gear and getting ready to fly off to Israel with fifteen volunteers for the 2016 season at Hippos of the Decapolis. It will be great to see old friends again (yes, we are all getting older), but even more to see what the ground will give us. I’ll post pictures and models here on a pretty regular basis beginning Sunday, 3 July.

 

 

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Announcing the 2016 Season

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We are pleased to announce the fifteenth season of excavations for the team from Concordia Saint Paul at Hippos of the Decapolis.  Excavation will take place from 3-28 July.  Housing will be at Kibbutz Ein Gev.

This season’s work will be divided between two areas. Part of the team will work on the east side of the House of Tyche, finishing a large work and storage facility. The rest of the team will work on the southeast corner of a building to the north of the Northeast Church, in hopes of clarifying its function and relationship to the church compound.

2016 dig areas

Please, review the links on the main menu for details about the dig.

The 2016 season is the final full season of excavation scheduled for the Concordia team.

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