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About the lecture:
The Temple of the
Winged Lions lies in Petra’s “Sacred Quarter” across from the so-called Great
Temple. Built to honor the goddess al-Uzza, the Temple of the Winged Lions is
easily seen and accessed from Petra’s main colonnaded street as well as the upper
route by the Royal Tombs to the Petra Church.
Conservation of the
temple is ongoing through ACOR’s Temple of the Winged Lions Cultural Resource
Management Initiative (TWLCRM), and beginning in November 2015, USAID SCHEP
began supporting a new local non-profit company founded by members of the
TWLCRM local team—Sela for Vocational Training and Protection of Cultural
Heritage—to implement critical tasks in the temple’s “southwest quadrant.”
Through its training program in archaeology, conservation, documentation, and
site presentation, Sela is providing more than 60 members of Petra’s host communities
with much-needed vocational skills in heritage preservation, while also
achieving important results on site. Sela trainees have also been involved in
critical excavation and have been essential in carrying out emergency
conservation measures.
Most recently, Sela and
TWLCRM have worked to launch an experiential tourism program that provides
visitors to Petra an interactive tour of the site. Tours will take visitors
through the various tasks of cultural heritage work including documentation,
conservation, pottery washing and sorting, and sifting.
About the lecturer:
Glenn J.
Corbett is ACOR Associate Director and directs the Temple of the Winged
Lions Cultural Resource Management (TWLCRM) Initiative in Petra. He received
his Ph.D. in Near Eastern archaeology from the University of Chicago, where
his research focused on the epigraphic and archaeological remains of
pre-Islamic Arabia. Je jas also directed the Wadi Hafir Petroglyph Survey in
Wadi Ramm since 2005.
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ACOR:
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