On Hegra: LES TOMBEAUX

NABATENS DE HGRA
On the excavations at Hegra:

Under the direction of Lala Nehm,

with contributions by
C73-M25-J38-N7
Jean-Claude Bessac,
Jean-Pierre Braun,
Jacqueline Dentzer-Feydy,
and Lala Nehm.

Book in two volumes (914 pages),

format 24 x 32 cm.
Volume 1: text.
Volume 2: catalogue & plates.
ISBN 978-2-87754-328-6.
Price: 100 the two volumes.
Series: pigraphie & archologie, II.
Order: www.deboccard.com/fr/

This book was published with the support of:

 This work, published by the French Acadmie
des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, is devoted to
the Nabataean tombs of the archaeological site
of Madin Sih, in north-west Saudi Arabia. It
corresponds to Nabataean and Roman Hegra,
known in Arabic as al-Hijr. Hegra was part of
the Nabataean kingdom, the capital of which
was Petra, in Jordan. It was a caravan city and a
frontier post, located at the southern end of the
Nabataean kingdom and, from 106 CE onwards,
of the Roman province of Arabia. The site deve-
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loped from the first century BCE onwards and the Unesco World Heritage List. It is one of the
became a city surrounded by a rampart. Outside most prestigious sites in the Kingdom of Saudi
and around the latter, one finds several monu- Arabia and certainly the one which receives the
DN2(f) DN2
mental necropolese which contain approximately greastest number of visitors every year. Archaeo-
GN2(f) one hundred very well preserved tombs with a logical excavations have been undertaken since
GN2

DN1(f) DN1 decorated faade carved in the rock, as in Petra. 2008 under the aegis of the French Ministry for
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GN1(f)
t races
The site has been explored since the beginning Foreign Affairs and the Saudi Commission for
Tourism and Antiquities.
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of the 20th century and was inscribed in 2008 on

This book is the first of a series of monographs
which are devoted to the monuments of the site.
The first volume contains five chapters writ-
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offers an introduction on the site and
its tombs while the following focus on
the inscriptions, on the rock carving
techniques, on the architecture of the
monuments and on their architectural
decoration. The authors have all worked
several years at the site. The second volume
contains a catalogue of all the tombs, des-
cribed individually in detail, maps, panora-
mic photographs as well as plans and sec-
tions of each tomb. The two volumes thus
form an exhaustive publication of these
important monuments.