ocr: center of the city to the gate and temple had been cleared some years before by a Jordanian expedition under the direction of Diana Kirkbride. Another imposing monument, a theater, has recently been excavated by a joint American-Jordanian expedition headed by P.C. Hammond ofthe Princeton Theological Seminary. The work on the street had uncovered alarge inscription belonging to a building flanking it and almost certainly contemporaneous with it; the inscription can be dated accurately to A.D. 114, SO that it seems that the street was laid out as part of renewed town-planning activity immediatel ...