Hani'u
Hani'u ( Nabatean hn'w) was a Nabatean stonemason who worked in the Arab city of Hegra in the middle of the first century AD .
He is named in inscriptions on two facades of graves in Hegra as the responsible stonemason. According to the inscriptions, the graves were created during the reign of the Nabatean king Malichus II , the first in AD 48/49 and the second in AD 50/51. The graves are so-called stair - step graves, which are the most common type of graves in Hegra are. In the second grave, Abd'obodat and Afsa are also mentioned as stonemasons , so Hani'u is considered a member of Abd'obodat's workshop.
His name can also be found on two graffito in Hegra in which he is referred to as an architect.
literature
- Daniel Keller: Hani'u . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 285.
- John F. Healey: The Nabataean Tomb Inscriptions of Mada'in Salih (= Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement 1). Oxford University Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-199221-62-2 , pp. 128-130 & 171-173.
Remarks
- ^ Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum 2, 220-221.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hani'u |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Nabatean stonemason |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century or 2nd century |