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Robert Wenning raised the possibility "that the Nabataeans, or part of them, saw in the propitious moment of the enmeshment of Rome by the Dacian War, a chance to throw off the Roman yoke and escape the threat of incorporation into the Imperium Romanum by rising up against Rome and declaring their national independence. This would then have been ultimately a consequence of the nationalistic effects of the renovatio and would have been based on a gross misjudgment of how Rome/Trajan might act in this situation. In what form and to what extent this assumed fight for freedom of the Nabataeans started, may be left open. Rome reacted immediately and massively. The occupation of the Nabataean Kingdom and the subsequent annexation was equivalent to a preventive strike aimed at avoiding that the East would become a second hotspot."
Robert Wenning: Das Ende des Nabatäischen Königreichs
Originalveröffentlichung in: A. Invernizzi - J.-F. Salles (eds.), Arabia Antiqua. Hellenistic Centres around Arabia. Proceedings of the First International Conference "Arabia Antiqua". Rome, 27 May - 1 June 1991. Serie Orientale Roma LXX,2, Roma 1993, p. 103, transl. by UiU