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).

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• Fig. 2 - Location Map from Jones (2021)
  Figure 2
  
  Map of Petra with the locations of major excavations marked
  
  Jones (2021)
  
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• NEPP area in Google Earth
  NEPP area in Google Earth
  
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• Fig. 3 - Plan of the NEPP area
  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)
  from Fiema and Schmid (2014)

Maps and Plans

Discussion

Fiema and Schmid (2014:429) suggest that Structure 2 in the NEPP area was destroyed by the southern Cyril Quake of 363 CE. Fiema and Schmid (2014:429-430) suggest that Structure 1 in the NEPP area was destroyed by the 363 earthquake, but [was] later restored although in much altered form and appearance with final destruction and abandonment taking place afterwards, perhaps sometime in the early 5th century. They suggest that final destruction and abandonment may have been due to the Monaxius and Plinta Quake of 419 CE.

Maps and Plans

Discussion

Fiema and Schmid (2014:429-430) suggest that Structure 1 in the NEPP area was destroyed by the 363 earthquake, but [was] later restored although in much altered form and appearance with final destruction and abandonment taking place afterwards, perhaps sometime in the early 5th century. They suggest that 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:

• 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

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.