The Mamluk Public Building

Archaeologists have reconstructed the evolution of the castle over time by analyzing the sequence of construction phases and identifying the building techniques used in each historical period.

_{For further details:}

• ^{Nucciotti, Michele. “Analisi stratigrafiche degli elevati: primi risultati.” In Archeologia dell’insediamento crociato-ayyubide in Transgiordania. Il progetto Shawbak, edited by Guido Vannini, 27-55. Firenze: All’Insegna del Giglio, 2007.}
• _{Fragai, Lorenzo. New research perspectives on the Mamluk Qa'a at Kerark Castle: building archaeology and historical contextualization: 187-208. Journal of Islamic Archaeology, 6(2).}

_{To learn more about the dedicatory inscriptions that decorate the palace and other Mamluk-era bastions, including comparisons with similar examples across the Islamic world:}

• ^{Walker, Bethany, and Francesca Dotti, Michele Nucciotti. “Shawbak and the mamluk Transjordan.” In Da Petra a Shawbak. Archeologia di una frontiera. Catalogo della Mostra, edited by Guido Vannini, and Michele Nucciotti, 126-131. Firenze: Giunti, 2009.}
• ^{Dotti, Francesca. “Qal’at al-Shawbak: an interpretation on the basis of the epigraphic data.” In Proceedings of the 6th International Congress of the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, III: Islamic Session, edited by Paolo Matthiae, Frances Pinnock, Lorenzo Nigro, and Nicol Marchetti, 23-36. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010.}