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Tomb IGN87 is part of the Khuraymat necropolis, located in sector III on the southern wall of an inlet. The facade belongs to the typology with a single row of crowsteps. The tomb is situated adjacent to IGN88 on its left side. The facade is crowned at the top by five crowsteps and two lateral half-crowsteps. The entrance is framed by two lateral pilasters with a plain base and a capital with rounded corners, supporting an architrave and a cornice above. The base of the architrave is not aligned with the capitals of the pilasters. The tomb’s facade was set back into the massif by about 1 meter.
Les tombeaux nabatéens de Hegra vol. II, Nehmé L., Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, Paris 2015, pp. 144-146
The Nabataean Tomb Inscriptions of Mada’In Salih, Healey J.F., Oxford University Press, Oxford 1993, p. 219
“This is the tomb belonging to Hinat daughter of ‘Abd’ododat for herself and her children and her descendants and for whoever produces in his hand from the hand of this Hinat a document or deed of entitlement to the effect that he may be buried in this tomb since this tomb had belonged to ‘Abd’obodat her father mentioned above. During his lifetime he wrote a document concerning the burial of this Hinat and ‘Abd’obodat son of Malikat sister of Ma’nuh mother of ‘Abd’obodat father of this Hinat brother of RSYM Maliku the governor son of Rabibel the governor and his legal kinsman in a burial-place in this tomb by the bequest of (this) ‘Abd’obodat. And no-one has the right to sell this tomb or to lease it or to draw up for himself any document. And whoever does other than what is above will be liable for a fine to Dushara and Manotu in the sum of one thousand Haretite sela’s and to our lord Rabel King of the Nabataeans for the same amount. In the month of Iyyar the second year of Rabel King of the Nabataeans.”
