Report on the Humayma Excavation Project’s 2010 and 2012 Field Seasons.
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2017 - M. B. Reeves, C. A. Harvey, M. Fergusson, S. Harden, L. M. Holman, M. MacKinnon, and A. Shelton. “Report on the Humayma Excavation Project’s 2010 and 2012 Field Seasons.” Annual of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan 58: 105-144.
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Ḥumayma, ancient Ḥawara, is the largest Nabataean and Roman period site in the Ḥisma desert of southern Jordan. The Nabataeans, in the first century BC, had founded a town with an impressive water-supply system here on a pre-existing caravan route. Just over a century later, following the creation of Provincia Arabia, the Romans chose to build a fort for 500 soldiers at this strategic location. The residents of Ḥumayma’s fort and town coexisted for the next three centuries, during which time socio-political conditions in the Roman and Byzantine Near East underwent many changes.
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