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The territory west of Maʻân can be cultivated and in former times was cultivated and colonized. To the east there stretches an inhospitable desert. At Maʻân itself and in the immediate neighborhood there are a very large number of springs
Fig. 1—Maʻân and environs. and even several copious fountain-heads. The nearest and the most abundant of these is aḏ-Ḏawâwi, from which water flowed and still flows through a subterranean aqueduct as far as Maʻân. A second aqueduct, reaching from the distant spring of al-Ǧiṯṯe, used to convey water to the reservoir of al-Hammam and thence possibly even farther eastward to the ruined garden tower of Ammu-t-Trâb. This tower is situated on the eastward extremity of a long, flat-topped mountain spur. Utilizing this elevation, a narrow connecting drain was installed from which the water formerly flowed north and south, irrigating the garden into which the whole eleva-