Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : Two questions are addressed here by way of introduction to this worshop on Nabataean rituals: the presence, beside the platform on which the betyls were exposed (the mwtb) of a speciic sacriicial built device, before and after the creation of the Roman province of Arabia; second, one raises the question of the evidence of open-air rooms within the Nabataean temple, as compared with similar architectural design in both Graeco-Roman, Egyptian and South-Arabian temples.