Nabataeans
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The Nabataeans or Nabateans were an ancient Arab people who inhabited northern Arabia and the southern Levant. Their settlements—most prominently the assumed capital city of Raqmu —gave the name Nabatene to the Arabian borderland that stretched from the Euphrates to the Red Sea.
Al-Khazneh in Petra, Jordan
Ad Deir in Petra
Avdat, Israel
Silver drachm of Malichos II with Shaqilat II
Nabataean Aramaic
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Nabataean Aramaic is the extinct Aramaic variety used in inscriptions by the Nabataeans of the East Bank of the Jordan River, the Negev, and the Sinai Peninsula. Compared with other varieties of Aramaic, it is notable for the occurrence of a number of loanwords and grammatical borrowings from Arabic or other North Arabian languages.
A third-century AD funerary inscription from Umm al-Jimal, Jordan
Tracings of Nabataean Aramaic inscriptions marking a tomb (kpr, top) and a sacred site (msgd, bottom) dated to the reigns of ḥrtt rḥm ʕmh (Aretas IV Philopatris) and mlkw (Malichus), respectively
Funerary inscription in Nabataeo-Arabic characters from Al-Ula, 280 AD
Museum exhibit of a "Sinaitic" graffito from Wadi Mukattab, Egypt