Ruma (stonemason)
Ruma was a Nabatean stonemason who worked in the Arab city of Hegra in the first century .
He is named in inscriptions on two facades of stair tombs in Hegra together with Abd'obodat as the responsible stonemason. According to the inscriptions, both were built in the 40th year of the Nabatean king Aretas IV , which is why Ruma's creative period must have included the year 31/32 AD. Since he signed the facades together with Abd'obodat, Ruma is counted among the members of his workshop. He is therefore one of the oldest representatives of one of the two main schools of stone masons in Hegra.
literature
- Daniel Keller: Ruma . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 791.
Remarks
- ^ Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum 2, 209-210.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ruma |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Nabatean stonemason |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC BC or 1st century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century |