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<p>[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 1961112, member: 42773"]It's one of those "facts" that gets regurgitated on the internet so often that people assume its veracity. There's actually very little to support the idea.</p><p><br /></p><p>"There is no reason to assume a decline of Petra or in Nabataea during the reign of Rabbel II as Petra flourished as city. The thesis of the transfer is based mainly upon a single Nabataean inscription, later Roman coin finds and the assumption that Bostra was the capital of the new Provincia Arabia. A Nabataean inscription from Imtan of A.D. 92/93 was read as saying Dushara is ‘the god of our lord who is in Bosra’. Other inscriptions indicate that the formula is related to the god who is in Bosra, not to the king." (Wenning, R. 2007. The Nabataeans in History. <i>The World Of The Nabataeans, Vol. II. </i>p. 40.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Any notion that Rabbel moved the capitol (or mint) to Bosra, or even lived there at all, is pure speculation. The Romans made Bosra the capitol of Provincia Arabia, but that made perfect sense as they already had plenty of garrisons in the area. But even as the Romans were minting provincial coins in Bosra, the Petra mint continued issuing a series of semi-autonomous bronzes, and eventually some provincial coins of later Caesars. There is no evidence that the mint at Petra ceased production during the transition from kingdom to province.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 1961112, member: 42773"]It's one of those "facts" that gets regurgitated on the internet so often that people assume its veracity. There's actually very little to support the idea. "There is no reason to assume a decline of Petra or in Nabataea during the reign of Rabbel II as Petra flourished as city. The thesis of the transfer is based mainly upon a single Nabataean inscription, later Roman coin finds and the assumption that Bostra was the capital of the new Provincia Arabia. A Nabataean inscription from Imtan of A.D. 92/93 was read as saying Dushara is ‘the god of our lord who is in Bosra’. Other inscriptions indicate that the formula is related to the god who is in Bosra, not to the king." (Wenning, R. 2007. The Nabataeans in History. [I]The World Of The Nabataeans, Vol. II. [/I]p. 40.) Any notion that Rabbel moved the capitol (or mint) to Bosra, or even lived there at all, is pure speculation. The Romans made Bosra the capitol of Provincia Arabia, but that made perfect sense as they already had plenty of garrisons in the area. But even as the Romans were minting provincial coins in Bosra, the Petra mint continued issuing a series of semi-autonomous bronzes, and eventually some provincial coins of later Caesars. There is no evidence that the mint at Petra ceased production during the transition from kingdom to province.[/QUOTE]
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