May 17, 2011
After a decade of work at Hippos of the Decapolis, the teams involved at Hippos/Sussita are in the process of preparing an interim report summarizing the work through 2010. An initial draft of the report on the NIP is now available. If you want detail on what we have been up to these years, click here.
March 17, 2011
The full report on the 2010 season has now been published by the University of Haifa. Click here to order.
January 25, 2011
Volunteer John Klinkhammer ponders the Janus flask he recovered during in 2010. Thanks to Stefanie Carpus for this great photo.
January 16, 2011
One of the more interesting small finds from 2010 is a crossbow fibula-a pin used to hold together the corner of a garment at the shoulder. Such pins were worn first by soldiers and later by church officials.
Our fibula has been cleaned:
Some of the detail is quite exquisite:
July 27, 2012
Tyche fresco to Israel Museum
0by Dr. Mark Schuler • 2010 • Tags: Hippos of the Decapolis, Israel Museum, Tyche
The Tyche fresco discovered by the Concordia Team in 2010 is headed to the Israel Museum. See the news release.