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Tomb IGN27, belonging to the proto-Hegra type 1 typology, is located in the southern sector on the western slope of the main massif in the AlBanat necropolis, facing west. The entrance is elevated approximately 80 cm above the current ground level and is bordered at the top by an indentation running from tomb IGN26 to IGN31. The tomb is protected by a natural rock canopy and exhibits significant disintegration and percolation phenomena, along with a dense network of horizontal and vertical cracks. Both the left and right sides of the tomb are affected by capillary rising damp and salt efflorescence.
Les tombeaux nabatéens de Hegra vol. II Nehmé L. Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres Paris 2015 pp.63-64
The Nabataean Tomb Inscriptions of Mada’In Salih Healey J.F. Oxford University Press Oxford 1993 p.128
“This is the tomb which belongs to Ba’anu son of Su’aydu to him and his children and his descendants and his legal heirs. And no one shall be able to sell or lease this tomb forever. In the ninth year of King Maliku, King of the Nabataeans. Hani’u son of ‘Ubaydat the mason.”
