AMAES Reports and Publications

An excellent drawing of a camel and rider surrounded by more than a dozen Thamudic inscriptions that the AMAES recorded in Wadi Hafir. Photo by Michael Bannigan.

Preliminary Reports of the AMAES

While Dr. Jobling unfortunately passed away before a final publication of the AMAES could be completed, he provided regular annual updates on the progress of the survey and its major discoveries in several academic journals, including the Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan (ADAJ), Syria, Liber Annuus, and Archiv fรผr Orientforschung.

Season 1 (Januaryโ€“February 1980)*

Jobling, W.J. (1981), โ€œPreliminary Report on the Archaeological Survey Between Maโ€˜an and โ€˜Aqaba, January to February 1980,โ€ Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 25, pp. 105โ€“112, pls. pp. 388โ€“394.

Jobling, W.J. (1981), โ€œThe โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an Survey,โ€ Liber Annuus 31, pp. 328โ€“329, pls. 97โ€“98.

Season 2 (Januaryโ€“February 1981)

Jobling, W.J. (1982), โ€œโ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an Survey, Jan. – Feb. 1981,โ€ Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 26, pp. 199โ€“210.

Season 3 (Januaryโ€“February 1982)

Jobling, W.J. (1983), โ€œThe 1982 Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey of the โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an Area of Southern Jordan,โ€ Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 27, pp. 185โ€“196, pls. 32โ€“38.

Jobling, W.J. (1983), โ€œThe โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey 1982 Season,โ€ Liber Annuus 32, pp. 467โ€“470, pls. 111โ€“113.

Jobling, W.J. (1983/84), โ€œThe โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜ฤn Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey 1980โ€“1982,โ€ Archiv fรผr Orientforschung 29โ€“30, pp. 264โ€“270. (Summary of Seasons 1โ€“3)

Season 4 (December 1982โ€“February 1983)

Jobling, W.J. (1983), โ€œPreliminary Report on the Fourth Season of the โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey, 1982/1983,โ€ Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 27, pp. 197โ€“208, pls. 39โ€“49.

Jobling, W.J. and R.V.H. Morgan (1983), โ€œThe Fourth Season of the โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey 1982โ€“83: Some Aspects of Geomorphology, Climate and Epigraphy,โ€ Liber Annuus 33, pp. 396โ€“401, pls. 67โ€“69.

Jobling, W.J. (1983), โ€œProspection archรฉologique et รฉpigraphique dans la rรฉgion dโ€™โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an,โ€ Syria 60, pp. 317โ€“323.

Season 5 (Marchโ€“April 1984)

Jobling, W.J. (1984), โ€œThe Fifth Season of the โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an Survey 1984,โ€ Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 28, pp. 191โ€“202, pls. 41โ€“45.

Jobling, W.J. (1984), โ€œThe Fifth Season of the โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey, 1984,โ€ Liber Annuus 34, pp. 423โ€“428, pls. 85โ€“86.

Jobling, W.J. (1985), โ€œProspection archรฉologique et รฉpigraphique dans la rรฉgion dโ€™โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an in 1984,โ€ Syria 62, pp. 165โ€“169.

Jobling, W.J. (1984), โ€œThe โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey,โ€ Australian Foreign Affairs Record 55.5, pp. 434โ€“435.

Jobling, W.J. (1984), โ€œThe โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey 1980โ€“1984: Some Notes and Reflections,โ€ TRASUS 2.2, pp. 35โ€“52. (Summary of Seasons 1โ€“5)

Season 6 (December 1984โ€“February 1985)

Jobling, W.J. (1985), โ€œPreliminary Report of the Sixth Season of the โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an Epigraphic and Archaeological Survey,โ€ Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 29, pp. 211โ€“220, pls. 43โ€“50.

Jobling, W.J. (1985), โ€œThe Sixth Season of the โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an Survey, 1985,โ€ Liber Annuus 35, pp. 396โ€“399, pls. 99โ€“101.

Jobling, W.J. (1986), โ€œProspection archรฉologique et รฉpigraphique dans la rรฉgion dโ€™โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an 1984โ€“5,โ€ Syria 63, pp. 405โ€“415.

Jobling, W.J. (1985/86), โ€œThe โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜ฤn Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey 1983โ€“1985,โ€ Archiv fรผr Orientforschung 33, pp. 233โ€“247. (Summary of Seasons 4โ€“6)

Season 7 (Septemberโ€“December 1986)

Jobling, W.J. (1987), โ€œThe Seventh Season of the Aqaba-Maโ€˜an Survey,โ€ Liber Annuus 37, pp. 376โ€“379, pls. 55โ€“56.

Jobling, W.J. (1988), โ€œProspection archรฉologique et รฉpigraphique dans la rรฉgion dโ€™โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an, 1986,โ€ Syria 65, pp. 427โ€“434.

Season 8 (Januaryโ€“February 1988)

Jobling, W.J. (1989), โ€œReport of the Eighth Season of the โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey (Januaryโ€“February 1988),โ€ Liber Annuus 39, pp. 253โ€“255, pls. 74โ€“75.

Jobling, W.J. (1989), โ€œโ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey,โ€ in Archaeology of Jordan, Vol. II, eds. D. Homes-Fredericq and J.B. Hennessy, Akkadica Supplimentum 7 (Leuven: Peeters), pp. 16โ€“24. (Summary of Seasons 1โ€“8)

Jobling, W.J. (1989), โ€œWilliam Jobling Collects North Arabian Inscriptions,โ€ ACOR Newsletter 1.1, pp. 4โ€“5.

Season 9 (Februaryโ€“March 1990)

Jobling, W.J. (1990), โ€œThe โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey, 1990,โ€ ACOR Newsletter 1.2, p. 6.

Jobling, W.J. (1990), โ€œThe โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an Survey 1990,โ€ Liber Annuus 40, pp. 455โ€“457, pl. 67.

Jobling, W.J. (1991), โ€œAqaba-Maโ€™an Survey,โ€ in โ€œArchaeology in Jordanโ€ segment, American Journal of Archaeology 95.2, pp. 268โ€“270.

Jobling, W.J. (1992), โ€œThe โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an Survey 1980โ€“1990: Research Report,โ€ Liber Annuus 42, pp. 351โ€“356, pls. 39โ€“40.

Jobling, W.J. (1993), โ€œThe โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey 1988โ€“1990,โ€ Syria 70, pp. 244โ€“248. (Summary of Seasons 8โ€“9)

Post-Survey Progress Reports

Jobling, W.J. (1993), โ€œโ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an Survey,โ€ in โ€œArchaeology in Jordanโ€ segment, American Journal of Archaeology 97.3, pp. 514โ€“516.

Jobling, W.J. (1993), โ€œSouthern Jordan Survey: Inscriptions, Rock Art, and Overland Trade,โ€ Biblical Archaeologist 56.2, pp. 105โ€“106.

Jobling, L., M. Bannigan, and R.V.H. Morgan (1997), โ€œโ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an Survey,โ€ in โ€œArchaeology in Jordanโ€ segment, American Journal of Archaeology 101.3, p. 500. (Overall Summary of AMAES)

An elegant camel and rider drawing accompanied by several columns of a single Thamudic text recorded during the AMAES. The inscription, carved in a cartouche, lists the name of the author, Abraq, and his two brothers, Taimallah, and Said’el. Photo by Richard Morgan.

Additional Publications and Studies

During and after the AMAES, Dr. Jobling as well as different scholars and experts affiliated with the project (including Daniel Tangri, R. Godfrey Tanner, and Neil Munro), published numerous articles and reports summarizing and/or synthesizing different aspects of the archaeological and epigraphic material the survey collected.

Jobling, W.J. (1983), โ€œRecent Exploration and Survey in Southern Jordan: Rock Art, Inscriptions and History,โ€ Berytus 31, pp. 27โ€“40.

Jobling, W.J. (1984โ€“1986), โ€œDesert Deities: Some New Epigraphic Evidence for the Deities Dusharas and Al-Lat from the Aqaba-Ma’an Area of Southern Jordan,โ€ Religious Traditions 7โ€“9, pp. 25โ€“40.

Jobling, W.J. (1986), โ€œNorth Arabian (Thamudic) Inscriptions and Rock Art from the โ€˜Aqaba-Maโ€˜an Area of Southern Jordan,โ€ Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 30, pp. 261โ€“284, pls. 48โ€“55.

Jobling, W.J. and R.G. Tanner (1989), โ€œZeno the Tribune,โ€ Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici 6, pp. 135โ€“142.

Tanner, R.G. (1990), โ€œGreek Epigraphy in South Jordan,โ€ Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 83, pp. 183โ€“193.

Jobling, W.J. (1990), โ€œHellenism in North Arabia: A New Epigraphic Focus,โ€ in Greek Colonists and Native Populations, ed. J.P. Descoeudres (London: Clarendon), pp. 551โ€“557.

Jobling, W.J. (1990), โ€œSome New Nabataean and North Arabian Inscriptions of the Hisma in Southern Jordan,โ€ ARAM Periodical 2.1/2, pp. 99โ€“111.

Jobling, W.J. (1990), โ€œNew North Arabian Epigraphic Evidence for the History of the Decipherment of the Alphabet,โ€ in History and Historiography of Linguistics: Papers from the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences, Vol. 1: Antiquityโ€“17th Century, eds. H.J. Niederehe and E.F.K Koerner (John Benjamins), pp. 125โ€“134.

Jobling, W.J. and D. Tangri (1991), โ€œA Prepottery Neolithic Site in the Hisma Basin, Southern Jordan,โ€ Paleorient 17.2, pp. 141โ€“148.

Jobling, W.J. (1991), โ€œNabataean and North Arabian Writing Systems: History and New Approaches,โ€ Languages of the World (Sprachen der Welt) 1, pp. 33โ€“41.

Jobling, W.J. (1992), โ€œThe Annotated Rock Art of Southern Jordan,โ€ in Rock Art in the Old World: Papers Presented in Symposium A of the AURA Congress, Darwin (Australia) 1988, ed. M. Lorblanchet (New Delhi: Indira Ghandi National Centre for the Arts), pp. 385โ€“392.

Jobling, W.J. and R.G. Tanner (1993), โ€œNew Evidence for Early Christianity in the North-West Hejaz,โ€ Studia Patristica 25, pp. 313โ€“317.

Munro, R., R. Morgan, et al. (1997), โ€œOptical Dating and Landscape Chronology at ad-Disa, Southern Jordan, and its Potential,โ€ Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 6, pp. 97โ€“103.

*While the AMAES exploration of the Hisma began in Januaryโ€“February 1980, Jobling had begun investigating portions of the Wadi Arabah in 1979. As such, some publications list the starting date of the survey as 1979.

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