Afsa (stonemason)
Afsa , son of Hutu, was a Nabataean stonemason who worked in Hegra in the middle of the 1st century .
Afsa belonged to the stonemason school of Abd'obodat . Together with him and Hani'u, he is named as the executing stonemason in an inscription on one of the staircase grave facades . The tomb facade is dated by the inscription to the eleventh year of reign (50 AD) of the Nabatean king Malichus II .
literature
- Daniel Keller: Afsa. In: Rainer Vollkommer (editor): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 6.
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Afsa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Nabatean stonemason |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century or 2nd century |