SPONSORED BY:
La Sierra University
In consortium with:
Canadian University College • Walla Walla University

Part of THE MADABA PLAINS PROJECT
A multi-disciplinary archaeological affiliation centered in Jordan
and sponsored by:
Andrews University • Canadian University College
La Sierra University • Walla Walla University
http://mpp.wallawalla.edu

Acknowledgments
As directors of the Madaba Plains Project-`Umayri (MPP-U), we want to express our appreciation to several individuals and groups for their support of our project. The Royal family of Jordan, especially HRH Prince Hassan, his daughter HRH Princess Sumaya and HRH Prince Raad, has long encouraged us in our work as well as providing numerous constructive suggestions for making the site archaeologically responsible and visitor-friendly. His Excellency, Mr. Akel Biltaji, Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, has visited Tall al-`Umayri and the MPP-U camp on several occasions to provide ideas and encouragement. Dr. Ghazi Bisheh, former Director-General of the Department of Antiquities, has been actively engaged in the work of MPP for years, offering assistance in ways too numerous to list. So has the current Director-General of the Department of Antiquities, Dr. Fawwaz al-Kraysheh, been helpful. Mr. Abdel Sami` Abu Diyyeh, in charge of Cultural Management Resources for the Department, supervised the first phase of reconstruction at `Umayri in 1999. Dr. Raouf Abujaber and other members of the Abujaber family have been extremely generous in allowing us to excavate on land belonging to them. Drs. Pierre and Patricia Bikai, he as Director of the American Center of Oriental Research, have led the way in preparing sites for presentation. Department of Antiquities representatives, members of the MPP-U core staff, foreign and local participants in the project and scores of local laborers all deserve our appreciation for their help in making MPP-U a leading archaeological project in Jordan. We are also deeply indebted to the consortium institutions which underwrite the project– La Sierra University, Canadian University College, Walla Walla University and Andrews University. We also wish to thank Rhonda Root, MPP-U artist, for her painting of the four-room house and the editors of Biblical Archaeology Review for permission to use several graphics in this brochure. Another group without which we could not have made significant advances in archaeology involves private and corporate supporters who, through the three decades of MPP’s existence, have made possible a number of ideas for which we have dared to dream.