The key seismic discovery at the Temple to Allat is a Thamudic inscription discovered among the ruins at the site. The inscription may have been placed after the temple was rebuilt following earthquake damage. This may reflect a broader pattern in the Nabataean kingdom, when temples damaged by earthquakes appear to have been rebuilt relatively quickly. Examples include the High Places at Petra, Khirbet Tannur, and the Temple to Allat at Wadi Ramm. The inscription preserves a fragment of a date: "and this is written on the day/ . . . of Ab in the year 40 and . . . ,." Two chronological interpretations have been proposed (Avi-Yonah 1975). One possibility is that the date refers to the reign of Aretas IV, the only Nabataean king known to have ruled more than forty years (9 BCE–40 CE), which would place the inscription somewhere between about 32 and 40 CE. Alternatively, the date may refer to the era of Provincia Arabia, which would place the inscription between about 146 and 155 CE. Because the inscription does not mention the royal epithet Philopatris associated with Aretas IV, the excavators favored the later provincial dating (Avi-Yonah 1975).