Notes on the Nabataean Legal System

Despite the availability of certain studies concerned with Nabataean inscriptions, most of these studies are merely translated inscriptions and are not concerned enough with the other aspects of the Nabataean society such as the law, where the study of the Nabataean law and the legal tradition are of great importance. The research presented here is an attempt to illustrate the language and the structure of the Nabataeans’ legal inscriptions seeking to illustrate the different types of the legal traditions reflected by the Nabataean documents, and trying to point out its relation to other ancient legal systems in the region