Preview: Arabia

[athanaric]

Will there be an new city and province in the south of Petra??

Dedan is new, as you can see on the map. Saffara is probably a replacement for Ubar.

[Moros]

Dedan is new, as you can see on the map. Saffara is probably a replacement for Ubar.

Ubar if it existed was more likely to have been a ethnic denomination and possibly the name for a region, not a settlement. Saffara and Sumhuram are archaeologically attested and better candidates than Shisur, the site to which the original map maker possibly identified it with. While that was surely not connected to the Ubar myth, it was also much smaller and of lesser important than the two mention before.