Footnote 2 – “Rabbath of the Ammonites”

The German scholar Ulrich Hubner has proposed that this “city of the waters” was located down below the Citadel, near the later Roman forum, where excavators have found pottery dating from the eighth to the sixth century B.C.E. However, maintaining the city’s water supply that far from its defenses would have left its inhabitants exposed and vulnerable to attack.