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Abstract
Umm at-Tawabin is an extensive Nabataean/Roman site overlooking Wadi al-‘Arabah in southern Jordan. The site, as a whole, consists of a number of buildings, circular stone structures, a roadway and other features that are fortified, for the most part, by a lengthy wall and with a predominance of Nabataean and Roman surface pottery on the ground. Up until now, the site has only been documented in brief in a handful of survey reports since its discovery in the late nineteenth century and its chronology has since been the subject of some conjecture among scholars. With a grant from the Palestine Exploration Fund, the author has sought to better understand the occupational history of this undoubted historically important site through survey and by extension, a study of its surface pottery and architectural remains.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Many thanks to the PEF for funding this small project, to Konstantinos Politis for his support and guidance, to the Dept. of Antiquities of Jordan and staff at the Museum at the Lowest Place on Earth (as-Safi) for providing all necessary facilities, to Qutaiba Dasouqi for the site survey, to Tony Grey for his assistance in the pottery study, to Antonis Trohalakis for his fieldwork, and to Chaim Ben David and Yeshu Dray for their valuable advice.
ORCID
Alexandra Ariotti http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0272-3742