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   ocr: dwellings of the Nabataeans in the first stages of their process of settling down, in the decades following 300 B.C. That they cannot be much earlier than this is clear if we accept the evidence of Diodorus Siculus, who tells US that at the time of Antigonus' attack in 312 I B.C.the Nabataeans were still completely nomadic and did not build houses. We may also note parenthetically with regard to these early levels that the coins recovered include a much larger proportion of Phoenician issues than of Egyptian, a fact that could perhaps be interpreted as showing that during the troubled course o ...