Umm al-Walīd is a site located to the southeast of Madaba. It has a long occupational history, spanning the Nabataean period into the Middle Islamic period, although it is best known for its Umayyad period occupation (King 1985).
King, Geoffrey. "A Survey of the Southern Ghawr, the Wadi 'Araba and Western Trans-Jordan, 1981-2" Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 15 (1985), 41-47
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