ocr: too - soon to speak in detail of these phases, they already seem to make a historically satisfying picture of an orderly and logical progression from a primitive "Oriental" stage of Nabataean culture to a more sophisticated Hellenized stage. We must now turn to the evidence. The earliest structures uncovered lie some three meters below the level of the Roman colonnaded street, resting directly on un- disturbed gravel. They comprise a group of walls, thin but solidly built of wadi boulders packed and faced with stiff yellow clay. Associated with these at one point was a simple clay oven. Unfort ...
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