 Though the evidence for this village survives only in fragments, there are numerous Nabataean inscriptions from this period, mostly tomb stones.At least two men mentioned on these served as members of the Bostra City Council (de Vries, Bert).As the Romans continued their conquest of the surrounding areas, the Nabataean king saw his state's demise as inevitable, so he ceded his kingdom to the Roman emperor Trajan in AD 106.