Milestone: Patricia Munner Bakai (1943-2025)

@CR: Courtesy of American Center of Research.

Archaeologists, Petresia Maonore Bakkai, were extremely intensely involved in field projects in Lebanon, Egypt, Cyprus, and Jordan for more than four decades. She moved to Oman in 1991 when her husband Perry Bakai became the director of the American Center of Research (ACOR). It played many roles in Oman in his 15 years, including the Acore Associate Director, which could lead to the center’s most important excavation, rehabilitation and publishing plans.

Perry and Patricia met in 1970 when she traveled to Lebanon under the excavation of the University of Pennsylvania in Surfand (Bible Sripata), under James B. Rahdard. Perry was the architect of the American project and was also the field manager of Lebanese excavation in the tire. During the excavation of the surfand, he became a good friend of Artemis and Martha Jokoski and will remain like this with a close relationship in Jordan. In 1972, Baycys married in a tire in the 18th century church of St. Thomas, above the church of the Crusader, which he had excavated. As a field archaeological for tire excavation, it carefully documented the site’s complex ceramic continuity from the early bronze era (2750 to 700 BC). This work caused it to be published Tire mud pot (Irs and Philips, 1978), an important reference tool.

Patricia and Pierre left the tire in 1975 due to the Lebanese civil war and moved to California. Petricia studied at Santa Clara University for a Bachelor’s Degree and received a Master in Bible education from San Francisco University. She then proceeded to get a PhD. In Bible Archeology from the Graduate Tisorial Union in Berkeley. In the 1980s, his research focus was on Finos and Cyprus, where he received the Fulbright Fellowship (1984–1985) to analyze and publish the Finnish utensils found on the island (Nicon: Lentus, 1987).

From 1991 to 2006, Baycys, while driving, performed thousands of projects in Jordan – rehabilitation, maintenance and protection, as well as important publications as well as important posts. Patricia launched Akor’s big monograph series and he was the editor of the 1992 volume, Jordan’s mosaicAuthor of Father Michelle Packerlo (died 2008). This invaluable Tom provides extensive reflection and insights about the floor decoration of many Byzantine churches in the country. The irony is that the amazing mosaic discovered during the excavation of the Petra Church was not included, as they were being exposed only in 1992-1993.

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Thanks to Patricia once again, multi -authorized composite volume Petra church (ACOR, 2001) Covers the results of the 1990s in great detail. It provided insights on the entertainment of Ops Sequel Floor in the Navy, along with the project as well as other efforts to protect and build a shelter to protect the church. Under its editorship, the first of the five volumes Petra Peprey In 2002, he compiled for the coming volumes, which was presented by several experts, the sixth -century fragile papaya scroll, which was primarily written in Greek and found in the church.

The shelters were a cause for concern for the baycas, and in the 1990s, Akore’s work in Madaba resulted in the protection of several buildings. The ACOR also did great work in Oman, including the excavation of the so -called temple of Hercules at the Oman Fort and the resurrection of the columns, which is now a famous picture for Oman. The project and many others were financed by USAID, which also supported the upgrade to the ACOR building in the past years, such as a conservation lab that cured the excavation.

In 1994, Petricia attracted its attention to the hill area above the Petra Church and excavated the North Ridge Church there and then underneath the Blue Chapel, which was restored under its guidance in 2002. It was the last big post Petra: North Ridge – It launched a project in Bada in 2005, which exposed the amazing cache of construction statues inside a building, which may be that the Nabatin royal banquet hall. Items coming from these various excavations in Petra are now exhibited at the Petra Museum near the Jordan Museum and Visitor Center in Oman. Some of the subsequent fields were done after the baycas was transferred to Aqaba in 2006. Perry and Patricia were living there until 2011, when they returned to California and settled in Emerwal with San Francisco Bay.

At the time of retirement from Akur, Petricia was awarded the Hussein Medal for a prominent order of another order by HM Shah Abdullah II. His efforts to protect Jordan’s heritage were shown in many ways and the award deserved very much. The generations of scholars working in the region passed through the gates of Akur and the bikes helped many of them. For these efforts, they will have long remembered those for whom Akur had become a special place. When I moved to Jordan in 2006 to be the successor of Pierre, the Bikes welcomed me openly. I was then aware of the time and now all of what Patricia did, and he always appreciates my authenticity and passion for archeology, but equally loyal to his friends and family.

Barbara A Porter Oman is a former director of the American Center of Research (2006-2020) in Jordan. Earlier, he served as assistant curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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