Jordan: Nabataean dedication to the goddess of Haiyan in Aramaic script. Temple of the Winged Lions, Petra, c. 1st century BCE. The Nabateans, were ancient peoples of Jordan, whose oasis settlements in the time of Josephus (37-100 CE), gave the name of Nabatene to the borderland between Syria and Arabia, from the Euphrates to the Red Sea. Their loosely-controlled trading network, which centered on strings of oases that they controlled, where agriculture was intensively practiced in limited areas, and on the routes that linked them, had no securely defined boundaries in the surrounding desert.

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