TY - GEN ID - propylaeumdok147 TI - OCCIDENT & ORIENT: Newsletter of the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology in Amman (Volume 2, No. 1, June 1997) Y1 - 1997/// UR - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/propylaeumdok/147/ AV - public N2 - The Institute Maintains a Wide Range of Activities. By Hans-Dieter Bienert, German Protestant Institute of Archaeology (Amman) Gadara / Umm Qais excavations. By: Adolf Hoffmann, Technical University of Cottbus (Germany) New Perspectives for the Study of Petra: The Archaeological Map of the Nabataean Capital By: Laïla Nehmé, CNRS, Paris (France) Architectural Evidence of Neolithic Wadi Shu?eib. By: Gary O. Rollefson, ?Ain Ghazal Research Institute (AGRI), Ober-Ramstadt (Germany) Umm Qais ? More than Just Gadara By: Anna-Christine Janke, Irbid (Jordan) Update on the Petra Church Papyri. By: Robert Daniel, American Center of Oriental Research ? ACOR. Azraq Wetlands Prehistory and Paleoenvironment Project. By: Gary O. Rollefson, ?Ain Ghazal Research Institute (AGRI), Ober-Ramstadt (Germany) Kamid el-Loz in Lebanon: The resumption of work in summer 1997. By: Marlies Heinz, University of Freiburg (Germany) ?Ain Ez-Zara ? Kallirrhoe: The thermal bath of Herod the Great. By: Christa Clamer, Amman Ba?ja ? Investigations into one of the earliest settlements in Jordan. By: Hans-Dieter Bienert, German Protestant Institute of Archaeology, Amman-office (DEI), Hans Georg Gebel, Free University of Berlin (Germany) CARCIP Launches Restoration Works in Petra. By: Helge H. Fischer, Project Director CARCIP, Amman (Jordan) The Madaba Mosaic Map Centenary, 1897-1997: Travelling through the Byzantine-Umayyad Period. By: Herbert Donner, University of Kiel (Germany) The Muslim-Christian Consultation on Religion and Secularism: A conference organized by Aal Albait Foundation, in cooperation with the Evangelical Church of Germany (EKD) By: Claudia Schreiber, German Speaking Congregation, Amman (Jordan) The Gebel Shara Survey: A New Approach to Petra?s Hinterland. By: Laurent Tholbecq, Institut Français d?Archéologie du Proche-Orient (IFAPO), Amman (Jordan) New Discoveries at Yajouz. By: Lutfi Khalil, University of Jordan, Amman (Jordan) A New Thamudic Inscription From Madaba. By: Pierre M. Bikai (American Center of Oriental Research ? ACOR) Excavations at Tel el-Handaquq South By: Meredith S. Chesson, Harvard University (USA) ER -