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Syria | Theatre | Dead Sea (textual finds) | Hasmonaeans | Pompeius
(Rabbath bnē Ammōn, LXX Ῥαββά/Rhabbá; Pol. Ῥαβατάμανα/Rhabatámana, Assyrian bīt ammāna; Philadelphia since the mid 3rd cent. BC; modern Ammān).
I. Through the Persian Period
Capital city of the Ammonites (Ammon [2]); the oldest traces of settlement come from the Neolithic Age (7th-6th millennium BC). The earliest important remains with rich t…