ABSTRACT

Although a commercial people owning a city that was one of the most important of the caravanserai that were used for storing merchandise, the N abatreans had a standing army and could bring ten thousand men or more into the field. Their form of government was monarchical but far from tyrannical; their laws were just and their lives were simple. What their houses were we can but guess, for all that remains to-day is a quantity

of excavated tombs or temples, beside those rock chambers that have no architectural features.