IGN100

Tomb IGN100 belongs to the type of burials with a decorated facade in the Hegra style. The facade includes two half-crowsteps, an Egyptian entablature, and four pilasters with Nabatean Corinthian capitals. The lower part features a Greco-Roman entablature, and the entrance is framed by a narrow rectangular aedicula. The pediment is topped by lateral acroteria and sphinxes. The facade rests on a base approximately 50 cm above the ground. The interior includes a main chamber with two rectangular niches on the back wall and nineteen burial cells.

 

IGN100

Processing techniques

Pick, Point chisel, Flat chisel, Tooth chisel

Materials

Sandstone, Plaster, Mortar

Les tombeaux nabatéens de Hegra vol. II Nehmé L. Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres Paris 2015 pp. 167-171

The Nabataean Tomb Inscriptions of Mada’In Salih Healey J.F. Oxford University Press Oxford 1993 p.234

Inscription

“This is the tomb which Tarsu the prefect son of Taymu made for himself and for ‘Aydat his wife daughter of ‘Abd’adnon and for ‘Abdrabel and Taymu his sons and for their children and for their descendants and their legitimate heirs from this day forever. And….. this tomb………. his sons ………… and sell … give in pledge ………….. And anyone who sells this tomb or writes for himself regarding it a deed of gift shall be liable to the governor who is in Hegra in the sum of a thousand Haretite sela’s and to our lord King Maliku for the same amount. In the month of Tebet the twenty-fourth year of King Maliku King of the Nabataeans.”

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