Wahballahi (stonemason)
Wahballahi ( Nabatean whb'lhi) was a Nabatean stonemason who worked in the Arab city of Hegra at the turn of the ages .
He is named in inscriptions on the facade of a grave in Hegra as the responsible stonemason. According to the inscription, it was created in the ninth year of the Nabatean king Aretas IV , which is why Wahballahi's creative period was 1 BC. Chr./1 AD must have included. The grave is a so-called crenellated grave, it is the oldest inscription datable grave of Hegras.
Wahballahi was the brother of the stonemason Abdharetat and the father of Abd'obodat . These are considered to be the founders of one of the two main stonemason schools in Hegra and the founder of a workshop in which so-called stair tombs were built.
literature
- Daniel Keller: Wahballahi (I) . In: Rainer Vollkommer (Hrsg.): Künstlerlexikon der Antike . Over 3800 artists from three millennia. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7 , p. 947.
- 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. 154-162.
Remarks
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wahballahi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Nabatean stonemason |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st century BC Chr. |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1st century |