Italian excavations at Jarash 2002-2009: The area of the east propylaeum of the sanctuary of Artemis and the “propylaea church” complex

The irst systematic investigations in the area of the eastern propylaeum were directed by George Horsield on behalf of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem from 1925, and then from 1928 while Chief British Oficer of the Department of Antiquities for Transjordan. Horsield cleared the main colonnaded street of debris to facilitate visitor access to the ancient city. In the atrium of the church he found a Byzantine mosaic with an inscription mentioning the diaconia in the circular room on the northern side (Crowfoot 1938: 227).2