Jordan/Yemen: A collection of Nabataean bronze coins struck at Petra and found in Nabataea, South Yemen, c. 2nd-1st centuries BCE. The Nabataeans, also Nabateans, were ancient peoples of Jordan, whose oasis settlements in the time of Josephus (37 - c. 100 CE), gave the name of Nabatene to the borderland between Syria and Arabia, from the Euphrates to the Red Sea. Their loosely-controlled trading network, which centred on strings of oases that they controlled, where agriculture was intensively practiced in limited areas, and on the routes that linked them, had no securely defined boundaries.

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