A lost campaign? new evidence of Roman temporary camps in northern Arabia by Fradley, M, Wilson, A, Finlayson, W, Bewley, R

“…Remote sensing survey in southern Jordan has identified at least three Roman temporary camps that indicate a probable undocumented military campaign into what is today Saudi Arabia, and which we conjecture is linked to the Roman annexation of the Nabataean Kingdom in AD 106 AD.…”

Living under different laws: the Babatha and Salome Komaise archives by Czajkowski, K

“…The community that they attest lived in a small village which was first part of the Nabataean Kingdom but was later incorporated into the province of Roman Arabia in 106 C.E. …”

Two Safaitic Inscriptions in Comparison to Geographical and Historical Sources about the Arabian Expedition of Aelius Gallus by Adalberto Magnelli, Giuseppe Petrantoni

“…The aim of this work is to analyse the critical cruces about some geographical locations in reference to the western coast and the inland parts of the South Arabian and Nabataean area. In detail, the purpose of this research is to investigate the probable location of the port of Leuke Kome through a comparison between an epigraphic source written in Safaitic and some indication in Strabo’s account of the expedition of Aelius Gallus to Arabia Felix. …”
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Literacy and identity in pre-Islamic Arabia / by 498065 Macdonald, M. C. A.

مکتشفات أثریة جدیدة من العصر النبطی فی رأس النقب /الأردن by د.محمد وهيب, د. مهدي عبد العزيز

“…يهدف هذا البحث إلى القاء الضوء على بعض المخلفات الأثرية العمرانية التي تم العثور عليها في موقع دبة حانوت في منطقة رأ س النقب- جنوب الأردن خلال المسوحات الميدانية التي تمت في المنطقة، فقد تم الكشف عن بعض من المواقع التي تمثل ابراج مراقبة وبقايا ابنية ذات اغراض دينية والتي ترجع في تأريخها الى الفترة النبطية This aims at illustrating the results of the archaeological survey of the region of Ras-al-Nagab- south of Jordan, and also to illustrate the architectural remains, such as watch towers and remain of building of religious functions, found during the survey and dated back to Nabataean period.…”
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A trilingual sales contract on papyrus from Roman Arabia (P.Yadin I 22) by Michael Zellmann-Rohrer

“…Despite the absence of formal punctuation marks or word division comparable to modern conventions, the writers of this papyrus used various subtler means to highlight divisions in sense and content, related also to their choices among the three languages at work in the contract (Greek, Nabataean Aramaic, and Jewish Aramaic). This highlighting will have served in the first instance to ease future reference in a document meant to achieve maximum legal precision and authority, but the interplay of languages may also be seen to have ideological implications in the history of the region. …”
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Exploitation végétale des oasis d’Arabie by Charlène Bouchaud

“…The recent excavations of Madâ’in Sâlih, ancient Hegra, have revealed the existence of a city inhabited from the 4th century BC and occupied during the Nabataean, Roman and Late Antique periods before its abandonment around the beginning of the 7th century AD. …”
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A Short Introduction to Semitic Studies by Paolo Agostini

“…The oldest Arabic texts in a script derived from the Nabataean alphabet date from the 4th century CE. The cradle of Arabic lies in the North Arabia. …”
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EARLY MANUSCRIPTS OF QURAN (THROUGH DATA OF HIJAZI CALLIGRAPHY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE) by Yasser Ismail Abdel Salam, Adnan bin Mohammed bin Mohammed Al-Harthy

“…It also attempted to enlist the characteristics of calligraphy in early Quran copies as influenced by Nabataean script or what might be called early Arabic calligraphy (Hijazi calligraphy), comparing it with early Arabic inscriptions. …”
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