TWL Publication Grant from the NEH

The American Center's involvement with the Temple of the Winged Lions (TWL) in Petra Jordan began in 2009 with efforts to document and conserve the site and prepare for its final publication. Research and writing of the volume are now underway with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, which, in Sep 2021, awarded a significant manuscript-preparation grant to now former associate director John D. M. Green, executive director Pearce Paul Creasman, and grants support and publications specialist Noreen Doyle. Besides giving overviews of the American Expedition to Petra excavations and the efforts of the Temple of the Winged Lions Cultural Resource Management Initiative, the contributors will present material that is currently unpublished or only partly published. Understanding of the temple is vital to the understanding of not only Nabataean and Roman Petra but also the wider Middle East and eastern Mediterranean.