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Umm al-Biyara (Hardback)
Excavations by Crystal-M. Bennett in Petra 1960-1965
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Levant Supplementary Series
Pages: 160
Illustrations: 183 b/w illus
ISBN: 9781842174395
Published: 26th August 2011
Casemate UK Academic
Series: Levant Supplementary Series
Pages: 160
Illustrations: 183 b/w illus
ISBN: 9781842174395
Published: 26th August 2011
Casemate UK Academic
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Umm al-Biyara, the highest mountain in Petra, southern Jordan, was the first Iron Age Edomite site to be extensively excavated. It was a domestic, unwalled site of stone-built longhouses dating to the 7th-6th centuries BCE. The stratigraphy, pottery, small finds and inscribed material, including the important bulla of Qos-Gabr, King of Edom are described, supplemented by chapters on the use of space and a landscape study of mountain-top sites in the Petra region. The later Nabataean remains on the edge of the summit indicate a major Nabataean complex of buildings, possibly a palace, which would make this the first Nabataean palace in Petra to be explicitly identified.
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