Abdʿobodat

Abd'obodat ( Nabataean 'bd'bdt ), son of Wahballahi , was a Nabataean Steinmetz, of the 1st century in the second quarter Hegra worked.

Abd'obodat was evidently a successful craftsman. The stonemason, who succeeded his father and his uncle Abdharetat in at least the second generation, is named as a craftsman by inscriptions on five of the stair tomb facades typical of Hegra . Due to the inscriptions, four of the facades can be dated to the reigns of the kings Aretas IV and Malichus II . It is about the years 31/32 in which two facades were completed, 42/43 and 50/51. The fifth facade is undated, but can unquestionably be dated to the same period. He created the two earliest façades together with Ruma , the last with Afsa and Hani'u . He is named on two other graffiti , once together with his son Karibu .

Abd'obodat is considered to be the main representative of one of the two main schools of the Nabataean stonemasons, to which belonged his father, his uncle and the employees mentioned. Two more grave facades are assigned to the school on the basis of stylistic investigations; Abd'obodat is probably to be regarded as the stonemason who carried out the work. His son Aftah is considered the main representative of the second school.

literature

• Daniel Keller: Abd'obodat . In: Rainer Vollkommer (editor): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 2.