Fig. 2The NEPP area located between the Wadi Matahah (left), the Wadi Musa (right) and the face of the al-Khubthah massif.View from the West. Photo by S.G. Schmid
Fiema and Schmid (2014)
| Transliterated Name | Source | Name |
|---|---|---|
| NEPP site |
The NEPP area is located on the high ground between Wadi Musa and Wadi Matahah and may have once been where the Nabataean Kings resided ( Fiema and Schmid, 2014).
- Map showing location of the NEPP site from Jones (2021)
Figure 2
Map of Petra with the locations of major excavations marked
Jones (2021)
Basemap: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, USDA FSA, USGS, Aerogrid, IGN, IGP, and the GIS User Community - Plan of the NEPP area
from Fiema and Schmid (2014)
Figure 3
The plan of the NEPP area featuring Structures 1, 2, and 3. Plan by Jana Falkenberg and Maija Holappa
Fiema and Schmid (2014)
- Map showing location of the NEPP site from Jones (2021)
Figure 2
Map of Petra with the locations of major excavations marked
Jones (2021)
Basemap: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, USDA FSA, USGS, Aerogrid, IGN, IGP, and the GIS User Community - Plan of the NEPP area
from Fiema and Schmid (2014)
Figure 3
The plan of the NEPP area featuring Structures 1, 2, and 3. Plan by Jana Falkenberg and Maija Holappa
Fiema and Schmid (2014)
destroyed by the 363 earthquake, but later restored although in much altered form and appearancewith final destruction and abandonment taking place
afterwards, perhaps sometime in the early 5th century.They suggest final destruction and abandonment may have been due to the Monaxius and Plinta Quake of 419 CE.
- Map showing location of the NEPP site from Jones (2021)
Figure 2
Map of Petra with the locations of major excavations marked
Jones (2021)
Basemap: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, USDA FSA, USGS, Aerogrid, IGN, IGP, and the GIS User Community - Plan of the NEPP area
from Fiema and Schmid (2014)
Figure 3
The plan of the NEPP area featuring Structures 1, 2, and 3. Plan by Jana Falkenberg and Maija Holappa
Fiema and Schmid (2014)
destroyed by the 363 earthquake, but later restored although in much altered form and appearancewith final destruction and abandonment taking place
afterwards, perhaps sometime in the early 5th century.They suggest final destruction and abandonment may have been due to the Monaxius and Plinta Quake of 419 CE. Jones (2021) argues that al-Zantur I Spatromisch II ceramics, rather than dating from 363 CE - 419 CE, should date to at least a century later. If true, this would negate archaeoseismic evidence for an earthquake reported in 419 CE (i.e. the Monaxius and Plinta Quake) at ez-Zantur and other sites in Petra such as in a structure outside the Urn Tomb, and in Structure I of the NEPP Project. Jones (2021) suggests instead that the causitive earthquake was more likely the late 6th century CE Inscription At Areopolis Quake. Jones (2021) provides a discussion below:
Within Petra, the 418/419 earthquake has been suggested as the cause for the destruction of three structures:NEPP Structure I has not been excavated, and the claim that it was destroyed in the 418/419 earthquake is based on surface finds and reference to al-Zantur I (Fiema and Schmid 2014: 431). Without excavation, the actual date and nature of the building's destruction remain uncertain. The claim for damage at Petra related to the 418/419 earthquake rests primarily, therefore, on the evidence from al-Zantur I.
- al-Zantur I, specifically the end of Bauphase Spatromisch II
- one of the structures outside of the Urn Tomb, House II
- North-Eastern Petra Project (NEPP) Structure I