Erickson-Gini (2019:152, 167) reports destruction and subsequent abandonment of the south wing of the Nabataean roadside temple at Ḥorbat Ḥazaza, where three fallen arches were recorded in Room 2. The collapse is attributed to an early second-century CE earthquake that damaged the southern portion of the structure. Excavations revealed that “three fallen arches, lying in situ” had been uncovered in Room 2, and soil from beneath them (Locus 501) produced sherds of Nabataean painted-ware bowls decorated in a first-century CE style, establishing a terminus post quem for the collapse. Continued occupation of the north wing provided a terminus ante quem in the early second century CE, as pottery from that phase included a Hayes Form P40 fine-ware krater (Erickson-Gini 2019:162). The excavator observed that the site “was established in the mid-first century CE, during Nabataean rule over the area,” and that “the material discovered in the south wing, together with evidence of the fallen arches in Room 2, point to its destruction and subsequent abandonment of the south wing sometime in the early second century CE.” After the destruction, the area “may have been stripped of its building stones,” while the north wing was rebuilt and “continued to be partially occupied well into the post-annexation period (Phase 2; 2nd-3rd centuries CE) and early Byzantine period (Phase 3; 4th–mid-5th centuries CE).”

Erickson-Gini further suggests that the damage to the south wing may form part of a broader early second-century CE seismic event, correlating the collapse at Ḥorbat Ḥaṣaṣa with archaeoseismic evidence from other sites in the central Negev and ʿArava Valley, including Mezad Maʿale Maḥmal, Mezad ʿEn Raḥel, and ʿEn Yoṭvata as well as at sites in southern Jordan, notably Khirbat et-Tannûr, Khirbat ed-Darih, Aqaba/Aila, and multiple locations at Petra.