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4 April 1929

2/10/2018

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[by George Horsfield and possibly Agnes Conway)
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G.H. Worked on 3rd level and finished clearing of second. 
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From this came three fragments of figurines etc., camel’s head and horse’s body with trappings and the upper part of a female figure. Cleared up the washing water supply in the morning and finished clearing of high place, el Habis, and cleaned out the tomb chamber on lower level – found nothing.  The whole area has been quarried at the high place and part of the basin fronting “altar” cut away.  

The proper name of rubbish heap “el Aziz” is “katoote” meaning “that which slides down” from “Kalta” to slide.  

Some of the other things bought at Amman arrived.  Examined the West side of El Habis for fortifications. 
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A.E.C. took notes of the caves and foundations of the buildings, some of them built with large unhewn stones, leading up to the Megalithic circle from the South, on the chance that they may prove to be in some way connected. She finished planning the rock inside the circle.  Explored the caves and houses at the opening of the Siyagh on the N side, finding that to be a house area with remains of good plaster work and stucco and two pieces of worked white limestone.  One of the houses seems to be built in three stories; but the red sandstone has lost its surface to such an extent that it is no good studying houses in that area.

​Reference: Horsfield, G. [and Conway, A.] 1929 (transcribed by A. Thornton). Petra Exploration Fund Diary. "Business Papers to be Kept", Horsfield Collection Box 8, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 4 April: 22-23. 
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9 April 1929

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[by George Horsfield and Agnes Conway]
G. H.  Changed digging back to Katooti [see 4 April entry] – spent morning writing up Hadrianic North part of city wall.  Afternoon on dig which I don’t in the least understand.  Pottery all [? In pencil]
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The rubbish dumps known as "Katoote". Copyright UCL Institute of Archaeology.
A.E.C. photographed in the morning in El Farasa W. & El Farasa E. and found an enormous cistern near the mouth of Wady en Mer.  She took the interiors of 2 tombs with sarcophagi under the ceiling with the half-plate camera in afternoon, in El Farasa W.

Reference: Horsfield, G. [and Conway A.] 1929 (transcribed by A. Thornton). Petra Exploration Fund Diary. "Business Papers to be Kept", Horsfield Collection Box 8, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 9 April: 30. ​
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15 April 1929

12/9/2018

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[By George Horsfield] 
G. H.
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Sorted pots from Katoote.  Dig on S side progresses and is cutting through a Christian cemetery.  Got part of skull and some bones – bones very rotten.  Two graves were one on top of another.  Pottery infrequent and very fragmentary.  Some lamps – red Byzantine; usual type.  

Reference: Horsfield, G. 1929 (transcribed by A. Thornton). Petra Exploration Fund Diary. "Business Papers to be Kept", Horsfield Collection Box 8, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 15 April: 36. 
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16 [15th] April 1929 Part 1

12/9/2018

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[By George Horsfield]

The whole party went to El Barid escorted by Osair.  Explored the head of the 3 Wadis Ma’aisera and to the parts of the country outside the Site [? In pencil].  Noted considerable remains of ancient cultivation which is marked by the ruins of field walls and terracing.  Khubet Hormuz is apparently a village – a collection of small rooms and courts on top of and down the side of a slope.  It is surrounded by the ruins of ancient cultivation. The dig has progressed nearly as far as the Byzantine wall.  One Byzantine lamp was found and no graves.  
 
Continued sorting pots from Katoote – which are not very distinguished; some inscribed wine jar handles and the lower fragment of a draped figurine.  

Reference: Horsfield, G. 1929 (transcribed by A. Thornton). Petra Exploration Fund Diary. "Business Papers to be Kept", Horsfield Collection Box 8, UCL Institute of Archaeology, 16 [15th] April, Part 1: 36-37. 

Note: There is a discrepancy with the dating of this entry. According to Agnes Conway's diary, the trip to El Barid occurred on the 15th April. 
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