Report on the Humayma Excavation Project’s 2010 and 2012 Field Seasons.

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Reeves, M. Barbara
  • Harvey, Craig A.
  • Fergusson, Mike
  • Harden, Sherry
  • Holman, Lindsay M.
  • MacKinnon, Marla
  • Shelton, Andi

• Ḥumayma, ancient Ḥawara, is the largest Nabataean and Roman period site in the Ḥisma desert of southern Jordan. The Nabataeans, in the first century BC, had founded a town with an impressive water-supply system here on a pre-existing caravan route. Just over a century later, following the creation of Provincia Arabia, the Romans chose to build a fort for 500 soldiers at this strategic location. The residents of Ḥumayma’s fort and town coexisted for the next three centuries, during which time socio-political conditions in the Roman and Byzantine Near East underwent many changes.

• Date created

  2017-01-01

• Subjects / Keywords

  • Humayma
  • Roman Arabia
  • Roman provinces
  • Excavation report
  • Roman baths
  • Roman forts
  • Hypocaust
  • Roman period ceramics

• Type of Item

  Article (Published)

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/r3-tjbc-xm04

• License

  © Department of Antiquities of Jordan