Halafallahi
Halafallahi was a Nabatean stone mason who worked in the Arab city of Hegra in the first century . He is the son of the sculptor and stonemason Himlagu .
Halafallahi is named in inscriptions on two facades of graves in Hegra as the responsible stonemason. According to the inscriptions, both were built during the reign of the Nabatean king Aretas IV . The first grave, which can be dated to the year 26/27 AD, is a stepped grave that he created together with the stonemason Aftah . He is therefore attributed to the workshop of the Aftah, who is considered the main representative of one of the two stone masonry schools in Hegra. The second grave, for which he was solely responsible, is dated to the year 34/35 AD. This is a crenellated grave .
literature
- Daniel Keller: Halafallahi . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , pp. 284-285.
Remarks
- ^ Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum 2, 205-206.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Halafallahi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Nabatean stonemason |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century |