Event: [CANCELLED] Friday Seminar: "Urban Development in Gerasa (Jerash, Jordan) from the Roman to Early Islamic Period: New Results from the Danish-German Northwest Quarter Project"

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this Friday Seminar has been CANCELLED.

Speaker: Dr. Rubina Raja, Aarhus University, Denmark

Since 2011 a Danish-German team has been conducting archaeological fieldwork in ancient Gerasa, Jerash in the Northwest Quarter. The site was one of the famous Decapolis cities mentioned by Pliny and has a rich archaeological record. The large scale excavations of the 1920s and 30s as well as the UNESCO funded international project, Jerash Archaeological Project, which was initiated in the 1980s, are the two largest archaeological undertakings at the site. These projects all focussed on the monumental parts of the city centre. The Danish-German Northwest Quarter Project has taken another approach and has investigated the 4 highest laying hectares within the walled city situated west of the Artemision on a steep hill. This talk will present some of the results from these investigations and show how our understanding of the urban development at the site is improved by looking beyond the main street and its representative monuments.