ocr: second-rate material. These faults were concealed, however, by the Nabataean builders, who covered the interior faces of the walls with richly painted and molded stucco, many fragments of which were found in the debris within the house. Such lavish stucco decoration is a typically Hellenistic feature and can be paralleled at many sites in Asia Minor, Syria, Greece and Italy. This fact serves as an indication of the degree to which Hellenistic influence had permeated Nabataean architecture by the end of the independent kingdom. Yet such foreign influences were still not entirely dominant; both ...
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