The Nabataean Temple at Khirbet et-Tannur, Jordan, Volume 2

Cultic Offerings, Vessels, and Other Specialist Reports. Final Report on Nelson Glueck's 1937 Excavation

by Judith S. McKenzie, Joseph A. Greene, Andres T. Reyes, Catherine S. Alexander, Deirdre G. Barrett, Brian Gilmour, John F. Healey, Margaret O'Hea, Nadine Schibille, Stephan G. Schmid, Wilma Wetterstrom, and Sara Whitcher Kansa, with contributions by Kate da Costa, Patrick Degryse, Kathy Eremin, Sheila Gibson, Owen Gingerich, and Elias Khamis

Book cover: The Nabataean Temple at Khirbet et-Tannur, Jordan, Volume 2

Extent: 340 pages

Publisher: American Society of Overseas Research

Subjects: Ancient Near East

Series: Annual of ASOR

Series volume number: 68

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(October 2013)

ISBN: 9780897570367

Price: $20.00

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Khirbet et-Tannur is a Nabataean site dating from the second century B.C. to the fourth to sixth centuries A.D. In 1937, Nelson Glueck excavated the site on behalf of the American Schools of Oriental Research but died before completing a report. Now, in two extensively illustrated volumes, the results of Glueck’s excavations are finally published.


Khirbet et-Tannur is a Nabataean site dating from the second century B.C. to the fourth to sixth centuries A.D. located on a hilltop above the Wadi el-Hasa near Khirbet edh-Dharih, 70 km north of Petra along the King’s Highway. In 1937, Nelson Glueck excavated Khirbet et-Tannur on behalf of the American Schools of Oriental Research and the Department of Antiquities of Transjordan, but died before completing a final report. Now in two extensively illustrated volumes, the results of Glueck’s excavations are finally published, based on previously unstudied excavation records and archaeological materials in the ASOR Nelson Glueck Archive at the Semitic Museum, Harvard University. Volume 1: Architecture and Religion Volume 2: Cultic Offerings, Vessels, and Other Specialist Reports Volume 2 offers a systematic reorganization of Glueck’s original excavation records and presents detailed specialist analyses of the Khirbet et-Tannur faunal and botanical remains, metal, glass, lamps and pottery collected by Glueck in 1937 and now preserved in Semitic Museum’s ASOR Nelson Glueck Archive, along with fresh examinations of the Nabataean inscriptions and altars from the site.

  • By (author) Catherine S. Alexander
  • By (author) Deirdre G. Barrett
  • By (author) Brian Gilmour
  • By (author) Joseph A. Greene
  • By (author) John F. Healey
  • By (author) Judith S. McKenzie
  • By (author) Margaret O’Hea
  • By (author) Andres T. Reyes
  • By (author) Nadine Schibille
  • By (author) Stephan G. Schmid
  • By (author) Wilma Wetterstrom
  • By (author) Sara Whitcher Kansa
  • Contributions by Kate da Costa
  • Contributions by Patrick Degryse
  • Contributions by Kathy Eremin
  • Contributions by Sheila Gibson
  • Contributions by Owen Gingerich
  • Contributions by Elias Khamis

"This finall report on an excavation carried out decades ago is a fine achievement. McKenzie and her team should be congratulated for this important contribution to Nabataean history, architecture and art, and religious practice." --Joseph Patrich, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Journal of Roman Archaeology Vol. 30 (2017)
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