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Qurayyah near Dhat al Hajj along with Syria Hajj route

The oasis of Qurayyah, located ca. 70 km northwest of the modern city of Tabuk and 26 Km west-south west of Bir Ibn Hirmas, the Saudi Arabian customs stations on the Hejaz railway, belongs geo-morphologically to the western fringes of the depression of oases and dry lake beds composing the al-Muhtatab basin, the region called Lihh (Parr et al. 1970). The area is characterised by broken sandstone and shale hills crossed by innumerable wadis carrying a great amount of flood water that can be immediately utilized by means of dams and channels. Flat topped jebels with a uniform appearance rise to a series of steep rock faces and flat terraces (Parr et al. 1970).

Though the region is only starting to be explored systematically, Qurayyah has been repeatedly described as one of the largest and most significant sites in Northwestern Arabia. Because of its size, location and the presence of seemingly late second millennium BC material on its surface, it is said to have been not simply a strategic trade settlement on the main road in antiquity, connecting the Hejaz with Egypt (Fig. 1) but also the capital of the Kingdom of the Midianites (Al-Ghazzi 2010), a people well attested in the Old Testament, Classical sources and the Qur'an as living in the region of Sinai and Northwest Arabia in a period coinciding with the exodus.

While a consistent core of historical geographical information can be gleaned from written sources, none pinpoint precisely the location of Midian beyond a generic limitation to Northwest Arabia, east of Canaan on the Red Sea and not far from Egypt (Chan in press). It is also clear that the different chronology of the historical sources is in need of a deep critical review.

The eside tial Area of the ste is oal-shaped, walled and extending for ca. 12 ha (Fig. 2, No. 5). The masonry is both made of stone and mud-bricks in this lower part of the site. Besides the area to the west where traces of buildings still standing are visible from the surface and interesting peculiarity is thedepression in the north-eastern part of the residential site, possibly an ancient lake (Ingraham et al. 1981), within the walled enclosure. Similar features are known in Bronze Age sites in the Levant (Qatna). The Saudi Comprehensive Survey (Ingraham et al. 1981, 73) interpreted the caves (Fig. 2, adjoining No. 2 and Fig. 4) as quarries exploited for extracting Kaolin rich clay and temper for producing the pottery that was fired in the close- Kl s aea, here large a ou ts of potter la on the surface.

While the explanation for the original function of the caves will have to be checked through excavation, we have observed a multitude of human and animal bones (Fig. 5) lying on the surface inside the caves. The human bones are a very apparent feature and while they not receive any kind of mention in the report of the 1980 survey, they were noticed in 1906 by Bernhard Moritz (Moritz 1908) and thus must be at least over one hundred years older or more.

Nowadays the Saudi authorities have erected an extended fence for protection of the site. We ould o fir the prese e i the Kil s area ig. No. of a high distri utio of potter slag a d asters. Besides noticing the virtually total absence of Nabataean or Roman pottery, we could identify and sample a very high number of so-alled Qurayyah pai ted are fi ished potter (Figs. 6 and 7) and wasters (Fig. 8). This evidence seems to point unequivocally to the fact that this area must have been in use for the production of pottery in the second millennium BCE.

Associated with this painted material were simple ware specimens that either revealed comparisons with Syro-Mesopotamian shapes or with Late Middle Bronze to Early Late Bronze Age simple ware shapes known from Square Q3 in Tayma (Luciani 2013). Also these revealed evidence of having being produced in situ in Qurayyah.

The ceramic specimen sampled in the so-alled otter Du p regio a d a area i fro t of it ig. Nos. a d hae reealed beyond Qurayyah pai ted are aso o-painted specimens with a wavy band relief, exactly as documented in Square Q3 at Tayma in association painted ware . This is alled ‘Bar ot e potter . While statisti all the prese e of ‘Bar ot e potter asso iatio Fg. 9 ithi these asse lages is al as li ited, its ith Qurayyah Painted Ware` (Figs. 6-10) may now be considered sure, both on the site of Qurayyah as well as Square Q3 at Tayma. For the latter we now have a radiocarbon date pointing to the late 15th to 14th century BCE.

However, the date of the extensive areas with traces of ancient agricultural fields and hydraulic infrastructure mapped by the English team must be verified in order to check whether or not it was precisely the development of this skilled irrigation agriculture that enabled to sustain the urban growth of the site during the second millennium BCE. Qurayyah appears to be not only an extremely vast but also a much diversified major settlement. Judging from the surface finds and preliminary survey of the architecture this very complex and articulated organisation of the settlement seems to be extant already in the latter part of the second millennium BCE. If this is so, Qurayyah ight hae ee a full ur a settle e t, a it-oasis De Maigret 1999) as early as the Late Bronze Age. However, only after excavation will have provided a reliable dating of these structures will it be possible to explain the roots and development of the urban character of the site of Qurayyah.

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DESPAIR

SPOILERS BELOW / tw suicide sort of

ah the title really does sum this up. I am filled with such dread going in. I know cas gets sent to super hell, I know the destiel shippers are declaring it canon (but then, when haven't they), and I've heard from a reliable source that the show officially as of just now is queerbaiting for real by making it vague and easy to ignore it instead of actually confirming anything. plus nobody seems to give a fuck about jack, as usual, and sam didn't get to say goodbye? god how can this get better???? I hope buckleming got to fucking murder castiel! that would really improve this for me!!! the cherry on the shit sundae for real so okay here goes. ugh. I have this angel's envy bourbon at 1PM, oops. I feel like I will need it for this one more than the others I also am ensconced in my castiel trenchcoat + "be super good" shirt, and cas, crowley, and sam the q-pals are joining me. dean is banished to remain in the tote bag they live in. god I want to scream. this fucking synopsis "With the plan in full motion, Sam, Dean, Castiel and Jack fight for the good for the common goal." oh the plan to use Jack as a suicide bomb???? great idea. lol I hate this. whose "common good"????????? ah but yes dean runs a dictatorship right. no wonder chuck butts heads with him dean looks so fucking smug in the amazon prime video app, hovering over the episode where cas will die horribly. fuck. there is nothing that can emotionally prepare me for this episode the show is going to end with sam and dean because it started with sam and dean and chuck/the IRL writers are bitter about it I guess??? delete fucking everything god, very fucking cute of dean to be like WE GOTTA DO SOMETHING!!! you fucking piece of shit you forcememed this to go as quickly as possible because you want Jack fucking dead, don't pretend you care god. fuck. jack apologizing for dying, to the empty. I hate everything so much ah, so that's why the opening title screen has been that. gross. horrible. a jack singularity is that it? really? jack's dead? just like that. okay. awful. oh he's MAYBE dead. reassuring. I see that briana buckmaster and jim beaver will be joining us my cat is sitting in front of the TV trying to prevent me from watching this, trying to save me from myself oh and felicia day oh this one's written by robert berens, I mostly trust him I think sam should've photocopied the book first oh hey RSJ directed this one I'm glad to have rachel miner back in any capacity that's... alpha/omega on the side there? makes sense I hope it's a fake book god I love sam sitting on the like. what is that, weird equipment panels? more confirmation sam is queer, you heard it here what leverage does dean even think he has cool jack's just getting tortured now "the boy is still useful" at least billie isn't pretending to care about him. oh she left the book thank fuck cas goes to him right away, please hug this child alcohol is not gonna help you guys sleep oh here's dean's half-assed apology. "sorry not sorry that I just couldn't stop, I couldn't help it, I just wanted to get what I wanted, and now that I didn't get what I wanted, sowwy uwu I guess" "you've snapped me out of worse" yeah don't minimize this, sam oh yeah michael exists. I notice dean refers to him as michael and not including adam. way to go I notice that sam does not drink right away "to somehow" those eggs look great "no guns at the table" is a solid rule not only for how miserable that is, but because everything surrounding firearms is a carcinogen and doesn't need to be near food please love yourself charlie please eat good eggs am I supposed to know stevie, was she part of the alternate universe, I still like never watched most of 10-13 oh we're gonna kill MULTIPLE queer characters in this episode, awesome. we gonna kill charlie AGAIN??????? we brought her back just to kill her off, AGAIN? LIKE KEVIN? and bobby I guess?? can I just say how much I hate the concept of a "final boss fight" like why is it always ending in a fight, why is violence always the answer, and why do we feel like one final violent action will solve all the problems huh charlie's shirt looks like a tycho album cover okay so I didn't forget stevie, she was brand new? maybe? I love cas and jack :( feels strange because this all sucks there's no such thing as destiny, jack don't fucking die for sam and dean and 'the world' damn right, cas, he doesn't need "absolution" well that's true for you, cas, you care because he's him. dean just wants to use him cas and jack are good. charlie this was so not your fault. as usual this is the winchesters' fault. tell 'em charlie!!! get 'em!!! you're not sorry, dean. "What now?" is a huge fucking mood, dean oh, greg! our old friend! greg was a real one (but not anymore) yeah eileen's screwed. this includes sam too. and dean i guess. sam is a good person who cares about people despite dean's best efforts to stop him I can't see who he's texting. are cas and jack in the back? poor eileen :( god poor sam having to basically get eileen in front of eyewitnesses who can attest that she disappeared cas and jack are in the backseat yeah I wish he'd tell her she's never gonna reply now yeah she's gone. interesting use of technology that they couldn't've done earlier in the series, to show she was typing but then stopped god that's awful. fuck. "If I let myself go then I'll lose my mind. I can't, right now." that's a huge fucking mood sam let's just postpone all that grief for later. gotta shove it down. huge fucking mood. god I'm so sorry somewhere central... the... bunker? don't split everyone up dean, fuck yes revenge is definitely the answer. killing things is the answer. "not having a choice" is obviously the answer. you fucker we get a sam and dean hug but where's the one for cas. you can like... see it in sam and jack's eyes that they are worried they're never gonna see them again. I'm horrified that cas isn't getting to say goodbye to jack nor sam. I can't handle this. I guess this scene is where they took that last group photo that misha posted back in march? RIP :( oh hey donna jack, that feeling is TheDepression oh gas-n-sip sam's sweet to try to give jack some autonomy here instead of having him just... being shuffled around like baggage. is that eileen's car then this music is intense don't burn the fucking library also wow dean with the reaper blade again is oof. wow. yikes. dean is become death, destroyer of worlds for real. jesus that is fucking horrifying to see. aren't you, dean? aren't you a bringer of death. remember when you hated doing that back in season... 4? 5? later? dean has learned nothing. sam's been trapped in a silo before hasn't he. or that panic room or something. donna is sweet. jack is good. jack deserves better. sam :( donna is very kind I like hearing jody and garth mentioned even if they're not in this episode (?) oh hey charlie sam at least knows how you feel, charlie I like this set god I've missed jim beaver is jack going around with spraypaint? I'm like oh god there's no ventilation. I guess it's a paint bucket but still the fumes are bad. better than being evaporated though I guess big man on campus. RIP stanford sam at least there's a bucket. praeses magna. "president large"? thinking about how it would be impossible to have extras for episodes 19 and 20 I like watching jack paint RIP that plant. apparently he has his powers dean walks around way too comfortably with the reaper scythe. oh but the plan has changed. did billie leave that book and nobody read it?????? dean you don't have friends, bud. yeah how did you tink you would even stand a chance, dean. this is the worst plan ever I'm so tired of seeing cas get tortured. I don't want to see billie get hurt either. is "billie" actually the empty or something "Has virtutes conliga. Eas integra. Eas firma. Nos omnes serva." = "These virtues bind. Those infected. These are strong. We keep them all." idk google translate, I feel like that may not be "infected" but more like integrity I like the effects they did on the wardings there yeah pretty much you can't stop god oh I'm real sad about that couple who vanished together :( bye charlie bye bobby. :( bye donna??? oh that like gold paint gossamer looking shit going on with billie's arm is cool god I'm glad billie smacked him in the face, dean deserves it. I just rewound it to see dean get clocked again, it's so worth it so they went back to the bunker... for what? billie can just go there. sam and jack are gonna have such a rough fucking day. all those double cheeseburgers are back for revenge on dean billie's right actually. dean always thinks the rules don't apply to him because he thinks he should be making the rules. castiel should be with jack, not with dean. fuck. can't cas still heal people the scythe on the wall is a good visual. I really like lisa berry, she does an amazing job is this the same room with the ma'lak box always happy to bleed for the winchesters. christ. fuck. even with dean's pocketknife. cas I'm so sorry. sweetheart you don't deserve this. 7B? so Jack was trapped in 5B, this is a different room but probably the same actual setpiece just rearranged do you just... have to wait her out yeah yeah dean you suck. correct, you never should've left sam and jack. wow I feel zero sympathy for dean at all. you do it to yourselllllf you do, that's what really hurts. oh baby don't summon the empty please :( I'm so glad to know that cas never told them about how he saved jack, it's none of their business yeah it would be with jack, cas. you should be with him man this is shitty. this is like a bad fanfic for real. wow these shots are like, when it cuts between them it's so obvious these were not the same camera lmao fuck. how many takes was this god i hate dean. he has not done this for love. dean is a spiteful person. "you're the most caring man on earth" literally kill me. I want to die. jesus fuck. i want to be dead this is awful this sucks this actually really hurts. this sucks so much. dean you squandered this angel's life. now jack has no father. i hate you dean winchester. i hate you. you don't deserve cas loving you jack knows, jack can feel it. I hate hate hate hate hate hate that jack is left alone with the winchesters. i hate this. jesus fuck i hate this so much i hate this jack sweetheart I'm so sorry dean you fucking ass please pick up the fucking phone. please answer sam. i hate you god dean i hate you fuck dean you are the worst. fuck my life. fuck all this. fuck this show. i'm so angry castiel deserves so much better than this. fuck i'm so mad. why wasn't his moment of happiness knowing that JACK WASN'T GOING TO DIE. i hate this. I'm so upset. fucking shit-ass writing. and it's still not fucking canon you morons at least uh they don't have to have extras for the last two episodes? did they add that footage after? is that what got changed up? everyone's gone huh. god just. dump the show right into the trash. bye. also for fuck's sake nobody gives a fuck about jack like I didn't even know he survived. nobody cares. "sam didn't get to say goodbye" FUCKING JACK DIDN'T GET TO SAY GOODBYE fuck this so much. fuck, is dean just chuck's OC? made in his image and furious that his mini-me isn't acting the way he wants? is that why he gets exonerated at every turn? "all the evil shit you did is fine dean you're the MOST LOVING AND THE BESTEST EVER!!!" fuuuuuck

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[cynnexis-multi-drone]

mmm here comes thedepression

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Sometimes...

Sometimes i just cry for no reason, like legit balling out of no where. Sometimes i just want to be left alone like from everyone. i get depressed and i lack the motivation to get out of bed, go to work, or eat. I have difficulties creating lasting friendships and it feels like thedepression is taking over me. Im tired and sometimes i think that maybe i should just end it all and take my chances with God. Its hard to live my life, but i know im not the only one that goes through it. Sometimes i just feel like i am, but sometimes im good.

Sometimes...

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[arcaneskiess]

I don't really trust my feelings anymore. Like is my lack of feels because of #thedepression or when I have too many feels is it because of #theanxiety. Who the fuck knows what feels I have anymore.