A large number of inscriptions were discovered during the excavations of the ecclesiastical complex of St. John the Baptist at Riḥāb in northeast Jordan. This article presents the whole dossier and shows its contribution to the history of a community established in the civic territory of Bostra in Roman Provincia Arabia.
This contribution seeks to address the issue of the economic and political status of the coastal settlement of Tell Fadous-Kfarabida during the Early Bronze Age III by investigating the bioarchaeological remains from the site in their archaeological context. The presence of public buildings and prestige objects at the rather small site together with indications of a specialized economy according to the plant and animal bone records suggests that the site had a special position within a larger economic network. Most likely, Tell Fadous-Kfarabida should be interpreted as an administrative sub-centre connected to the more important site of Byblos. If this interpretation is accepted, it suggests a more complex economic and political organization during the Early Bronze Age III in coastal Lebanon than hitherto envisaged.
The Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut (AUB) includes an important collection of Greek and Latin inscriptions, mainly of Near Eastern provenance. The 126 items have in large part remained unpublished. Their publication contributes to the work in progress on Near Eastern epigraphy, specifically in Lebanon, Jordan and Syria, within the framework of the program of the Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie (IGLS). It also enhances the AUB Museum collections.
In this paper we examine the ceramic vessels recovered in the archaeological excavation undertaken in 2011 at the site of Saydet el-Rih Church in Anfeh, Lebanon. These vessels, mostly found in the two cisterns inside the church, serve as important underlying information in the history of the medieval period for the site itself and also for the region.
