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The 150th Anniversary of the United States’ Expedition to Explore the Dead Sea and the River Jordan, by Robert E. Rook (1998). An assessment of the Lynch expedition of 1848. Hard-bound volume of 31 pages. Many reproductions of Lynch’s illustrations, including his three maps.
| | Ancient Ammonites & Modern Arabs: 5000 Years in the Madaba Plains of Jordan, edited by Gloria A. London and Douglas R. Clark (1997). Life across the centuries in the area excavated by the Madaba Plains Project. Hard-bound with 76 pages and 74 figures.
| | | | | The Great Temple of Amman: The Architecture, by Chrysanthos Kanellopoulos (1994). The architecture of the temple that was excavated and partially restored by ACOR. Large format, cloth-bound with 135 pages and 13 plates.
| | The Great Temple of Amman: The Excavations, by Anthi Koutsoukou, Kenneth W. Russell, Mohammad Najjar, and Ahmed Momani (1997). Description of the 1990-93 excavations. This hard-bound volume has 191 pages and 3 fold-out plates.
| | | | | Madaba: Cultural Heritage, edited by Patricia M. Bikai and Thomas A. Dailey (1996). Catalogue of the remains from the Early Bronze Age through late Ottoman vernacular houses. Paperbound with 111 pages and over 150 illustrations and a large separate map. An Arabic translation is available upon request at no additional cost.
| | Madaba Map Centenary 1897-1997, with assistance from ACOR (Jerusalem, 1999). Proceedings of a conference on the Byzantine mosaic map. This well illustrated hard-bound volume has 278 pages.
| | | | | Megalithic Jordan: An introduction and field guide, by Gajus Scheltema (2008). This book is the first field guide to megalithic sites in Jordan and contains descriptions of dolmens, standing stones, and related features. Paperback, small format with 144 pages and 84 illustrations, mostly in color, and one map.
| | The Mosaics of Jordan, by Michele Piccirillo (1992). A large format, cloth-bound volume with 383 pages, 874 illustrations, plans, and aerial photographs. Third printing (2008).
| The Petra Papyri I, edited by J. Frösén, A. Arjava, and M. Lehtinen (2002). This first volume begins with the historical and archaeological context of the papyri; conservation; an outline of the dating systems; and a study of the family of the main character in the texts. The texts are documentary and written in Byzantine Greek. Sixteen documents with introductions, Greek transcript with critical apparatus, English translation, and commentary are presented. This large format (33 x 25 cm), cloth-bound volume has 161 pages and 26 plates.
| | The Petra Papyri III, edited by A. Arjava, M. Buchholz, and T. Gagos (2007). With contributions by R. C. Caldwell, R. W. Daniel, L. Koenen, M. Lehtinen, M. Mikkola, M. Mustonen, T. Purola, E. Salmenkivi, M. Vesterinen, and M. Vierros. Plates prepared by T. Szymanski and V. Vahtikari. This volume presents 19 documents. This large format (33 x 25 cm), cloth-bound volume has 236 pages and 87 plates.
| | | | | The Petra Church, by Z. T. Fiema, C. Kanellopoulos, T. Waliszewski, and R. Schick (2001). The volume contains reports on all aspects of the ACOR project that excavated what was probably the cathedral of Petra. This large format (33 x 25 cm), cloth-bound volume has 463 pages and over 700 illustrations including 36 in full color.
| | Arabic for Archaeologists, prepared by Robert Schick as a revised version of Paul Lapp's original. Previous revisions by Nancy Lapp were made in in 1971 and 1990. The easy to use pocket sized booklet (10 x 16 cm) is suitable for work in the field. Proceeds support the ACOR Library.
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