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 (JanuaryโFebruary 1980)*
Jobling, W.J. (1981), โPreliminary Report on the Archaeological Survey Between Maโan and โAqaba, January to February 1980,โ Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 25, pp. 105โ112, pls. pp. 388โ394.
Jobling, W.J. (1981), โThe โAqaba-Maโan Survey,โ Liber Annuus 31, pp. 328โ329, pls. 97โ98.
Season 2 (JanuaryโFebruary 1981)
Jobling, W.J. (1982), โโAqaba-Maโan Survey, Jan. – Feb. 1981,โ Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 26, pp. 199โ210.
Season 3 (JanuaryโFebruary 1982)
Jobling, W.J. (1983), โThe 1982 Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey of the โAqaba-Maโan Area of Southern Jordan,โ Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 27, pp. 185โ196, pls. 32โ38.
Jobling, W.J. (1983), โThe โAqaba-Maโan Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey 1982 Season,โ Liber Annuus 32, pp. 467โ470, pls. 111โ113.
Jobling, W.J. (1983/84), โThe โAqaba-Maโฤn Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey 1980โ1982,โ Archiv fรผr Orientforschung 29โ30, pp. 264โ270. (Summary of Seasons 1โ3)
Season 4 (December 1982โFebruary 1983)
Jobling, W.J. (1983), โPreliminary Report on the Fourth Season of the โAqaba-Maโan Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey, 1982/1983,โ Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 27, pp. 197โ208, pls. 39โ49.
Jobling, W.J. and R.V.H. Morgan (1983), โThe Fourth Season of the โAqaba-Maโan Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey 1982โ83: Some Aspects of Geomorphology, Climate and Epigraphy,โ Liber Annuus 33, pp. 396โ401, pls. 67โ69.
Jobling, W.J. (1983), โProspection archรฉologique et รฉpigraphique dans la rรฉgion dโโAqaba-Maโan,โ Syria 60, pp. 317โ323.
Season 5 (MarchโApril 1984)
Jobling, W.J. (1984), โThe Fifth Season of the โAqaba-Maโan Survey 1984,โ Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 28, pp. 191โ202, pls. 41โ45.
Jobling, W.J. (1984), โThe Fifth Season of the โAqaba-Maโan Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey, 1984,โ Liber Annuus 34, pp. 423โ428, pls. 85โ86.
Jobling, W.J. (1985), โProspection archรฉologique et รฉpigraphique dans la rรฉgion dโโAqaba-Maโan in 1984,โ Syria 62, pp. 165โ169.
Jobling, W.J. (1984), โThe โAqaba-Maโan Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey,โ Australian Foreign Affairs Record 55.5, pp. 434โ435.
Jobling, W.J. (1984), โThe โAqaba-Maโan Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey 1980โ1984: Some Notes and Reflections,โ TRASUS 2.2, pp. 35โ52. (Summary of Seasons 1โ5)
Season 6 (December 1984โFebruary 1985)
Jobling, W.J. (1985), โPreliminary Report of the Sixth Season of the โAqaba-Maโan Epigraphic and Archaeological Survey,โ Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 29, pp. 211โ220, pls. 43โ50.
Jobling, W.J. (1985), โThe Sixth Season of the โAqaba-Maโan Survey, 1985,โ Liber Annuus 35, pp. 396โ399, pls. 99โ101.
Jobling, W.J. (1986), โProspection archรฉologique et รฉpigraphique dans la rรฉgion dโโAqaba-Maโan 1984โ5,โ Syria 63, pp. 405โ415.
Jobling, W.J. (1985/86), โThe โAqaba-Maโฤn Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey 1983โ1985,โ Archiv fรผr Orientforschung 33, pp. 233โ247. (Summary of Seasons 4โ6)
Season 7 (SeptemberโDecember 1986)
Jobling, W.J. (1987), โThe Seventh Season of the Aqaba-Maโan Survey,โ Liber Annuus 37, pp. 376โ379, pls. 55โ56.
Jobling, W.J. (1988), โProspection archรฉologique et รฉpigraphique dans la rรฉgion dโโAqaba-Maโan, 1986,โ Syria 65, pp. 427โ434.
Season 8 (JanuaryโFebruary 1988)
Jobling, W.J. (1989), โReport of the Eighth Season of the โAqaba-Maโan Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey (JanuaryโFebruary 1988),โ Liber Annuus 39, pp. 253โ255, pls. 74โ75.
Jobling, W.J. (1989), โโAqaba-Maโan 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. 16โ24. (Summary of Seasons 1โ8)
Jobling, W.J. (1989), โWilliam Jobling Collects North Arabian Inscriptions,โ ACOR Newsletter 1.1, pp. 4โ5.
Season 9 (FebruaryโMarch 1990)
Jobling, W.J. (1990), โThe โAqaba-Maโan Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey, 1990,โ ACOR Newsletter 1.2, p. 6.
Jobling, W.J. (1990), โThe โAqaba-Maโan Survey 1990,โ Liber Annuus 40, pp. 455โ457, pl. 67.
Jobling, W.J. (1991), โAqaba-Maโan Survey,โ in โArchaeology in Jordanโ segment, American Journal of Archaeology 95.2, pp. 268โ270.
Jobling, W.J. (1992), โThe โAqaba-Maโan Survey 1980โ1990: Research Report,โ Liber Annuus 42, pp. 351โ356, pls. 39โ40.
Jobling, W.J. (1993), โThe โAqaba-Maโan Archaeological and Epigraphic Survey 1988โ1990,โ Syria 70, pp. 244โ248. (Summary of Seasons 8โ9)
Post-Survey Progress Reports
Jobling, W.J. (1993), โโAqaba-Maโan Survey,โ in โArchaeology in Jordanโ segment, American Journal of Archaeology 97.3, pp. 514โ516.
Jobling, W.J. (1993), โSouthern Jordan Survey: Inscriptions, Rock Art, and Overland Trade,โ Biblical Archaeologist 56.2, pp. 105โ106.
Jobling, L., M. Bannigan, and R.V.H. Morgan (1997), โโAqaba-Maโan Survey,โ in โArchaeology in Jordanโ segment, American Journal of Archaeology 101.3, p. 500. (Overall Summary of AMAES)

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), โRecent Exploration and Survey in Southern Jordan: Rock Art, Inscriptions and History,โ Berytus 31, pp. 27โ40.
Jobling, W.J. (1984โ1986), โDesert Deities: Some New Epigraphic Evidence for the Deities Dusharas and Al-Lat from the Aqaba-Ma’an Area of Southern Jordan,โ Religious Traditions 7โ9, pp. 25โ40.
Jobling, W.J. (1986), โNorth Arabian (Thamudic) Inscriptions and Rock Art from the โAqaba-Maโan Area of Southern Jordan,โ Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 30, pp. 261โ284, pls. 48โ55.
Jobling, W.J. and R.G. Tanner (1989), โZeno the Tribune,โ Studi Epigrafici e Linguistici 6, pp. 135โ142.
Tanner, R.G. (1990), โGreek Epigraphy in South Jordan,โ Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 83, pp. 183โ193.
Jobling, W.J. (1990), โHellenism in North Arabia: A New Epigraphic Focus,โ in Greek Colonists and Native Populations, ed. J.P. Descoeudres (London: Clarendon), pp. 551โ557.
Jobling, W.J. (1990), โSome New Nabataean and North Arabian Inscriptions of the Hisma in Southern Jordan,โ ARAM Periodical 2.1/2, pp. 99โ111.
Jobling, W.J. (1990), โNew 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: Antiquityโ17th Century, eds. H.J. Niederehe and E.F.K Koerner (John Benjamins), pp. 125โ134.
Jobling, W.J. and D. Tangri (1991), โA Prepottery Neolithic Site in the Hisma Basin, Southern Jordan,โ Paleorient 17.2, pp. 141โ148.
Jobling, W.J. (1991), โNabataean and North Arabian Writing Systems: History and New Approaches,โ Languages of the World (Sprachen der Welt) 1, pp. 33โ41.
Jobling, W.J. (1992), โThe 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. 385โ392.
Jobling, W.J. and R.G. Tanner (1993), โNew Evidence for Early Christianity in the North-West Hejaz,โ Studia Patristica 25, pp. 313โ317.
Munro, R., R. Morgan, et al. (1997), โOptical Dating and Landscape Chronology at ad-Disa, Southern Jordan, and its Potential,โ Studies in the History and Archaeology of Jordan 6, pp. 97โ103.
*While the AMAES exploration of the Hisma began in JanuaryโFebruary 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.