ocr: suggests that the manufacture of the lamps was confined to a very few workshops, perhaps even to a single family of lamp makers supplying the whole of Petra's needs. Most distinctive, original and interesting ofall, however, is the painted Nabataean pottery. This ware, in spite of its great fragility, was in such common use by the Nabataeans that Nelson Glueck of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati has used itto identify from surface surveys alone many hundreds of settlements in the southern parts of. Jordan and Israel. We have learned much about this beautiful painted pottery from our excavati ...
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