ocr: trade that flowed along the desert routes from the southern coast of Arabia to the eastern coast of the Mediterranean, a trade in spices, perfumes, incense and the like that was of great profit to the middlemen in- volved. At this stage in their history the Nabataeans were caravaners and middlemen par excellence, and the clear implication of Antigonus' interest is that by the end of the fourth century B.C. they were already rich and powerful. Little is known of the Nabataeans during the following centuries, although they appear sporadically in the pages of Fthe Apocrypha and in the writings of ...
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