NABATAEAN ARCHITECTURAL TERMINOLOGY

This research aims at studying the Nabataean architectural terms throughout their inscriptions. It demonstratea the Nabataean inscriptions which contain architectural terms and expressions seeking to point out linguistic indications. This also compares the different architectural terms occurred in the Nabataean inscriptions to their cognates in other Semitic languages, and stab to link them with the monuments in which the inscriptions were found and the existing ones. Moreover, the research reviews the historical and geographical distribution of such terms.