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The Nabateans in the Hawran

1977; American Oriental Society; Volume: 97; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/600733

2169-2289

F. E. Peters,

Ancient Egypt and Archaeology

Among the provinces of the Nabatean empire, the ancient Auranitis in southern Syria holds a special place. The area was already under Nabatean claim as early as the second century B.C. and signs of how energetically and prosperously the Nabateans developed Auranitis are still visible in the cities on the western slopes of the Jebel Hawran and the agricultural plain south of the mountain. Auranitis had eventually to be shared with the Herodians, but before the remaining portions of the Hawran were incorporated into the Roman province of Arabia, Bostra had replaced Petra as the capital of the kingdom. The Nabateans in Syria continued their successful careers as farmers and commercial entrepreneurs to the very end of their independence.