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   ocr: however, been primarily concerned with this problem, although they have thrown some revealing light on it. With the limited funds available, it was thought more profitable to excavate in one or two restricted areas of the city itself. Not only was such work bound to produce well-stratified archaeological material, but also it would help to redress the balance between our relatively detailed knowledge of Nabataean funerary archi- tecture and our complete lack of knowledge of Nabataean civic and domestic buildings. In fact, the most important single result of the excavations has been the recover ...