https://global.oup.com/academic/product/babathas-orchard-9780198767169?cc=us&lang=en& A collection of personal documents hidden in 135 CE ahead of the Bar Kokhba Revolt by a Jewish woman living in the rural edge of the Nabataean kingdom, near Judaea Her father had moved from Ein Gedi. Ein Gedi being the wilderness around Qumran, and the DSS includes Nabataean Aramaic. But all of Cave…

Strabo’s Geography, Book XVI, 4:26: https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Strabo/16D*.html Circa 20 CE is the date that academics who believe that Strabo’s Geography is an accreted work date it to, finished near the end of Strabo’s lifetime: https://www.jstor.org/stable/4477333

Map: Spring-water agriculture: Water procurement in the Negev Highlands: Agricultural expansion in the Byzantine period:

The undisturbed tombs contained both articulated and commingled skeletons, suggesting occasional reuse of the tombs. Many of these graves likewise held a substantial quantity of ceramic artifacts, wooden coffins and jewelry. The reported presence of many foreigners in Petra (see Strabo Geog. XVI.4.21, 26), however, could have resulted in the practice of non-local burial customs…

A Nabataean sanctuary was discovered, possibly devoted to the Sun God. It may be that Dûsharâ as sun-god was worshipped in the residential area of Hegra.

Offerings: Prayer: Feasts: Festivities Nabataean was organized twice a year in the first of the spring period and the second period in the fall, one of the most popular holidays in the cities of the Arabian Peninsula before Islam (Glueck 1965: 26).

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Nabataean tithes Nabataean inscriptions in Najran: Nabataean inscription dating back to 4 BC. It was found in Sidon, Lebanon. The inscription inaugurates the establishment of a council dedicated to the worship of the god Dhu Shura, in the presence of a Nabataean leader named Ibn Zuwail (Zuelos). It is possible that the council was also…