Abdʿobodat (Nabataean Arabic: عبدعبادة ''ʿbdʿbdt'') son of Wahballahi, was a 1st-century Nabatean Arab stonemason who worked in the city of

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, and constructed a number of monumental rock-cut tombs. He is named by inscriptions on five of the tomb facades Hegra as the executing craftsman. On the basis of the inscriptions, four of the facades can be dated to the reigns of kings Aretas IV and Malichus II. Abd'obodat belonged to a family of professional stonemasons. He inherited the family business from his father Wahballahi and his uncle Abdharetat and succeeded them in at least one workshop in the second generation of Nabatean architects. Abd'obodat is considered to be the main representative of one of the two main schools of the Nabataean stonemasons, to which his father, his uncle belonged.Daniel Keller: Abd’obodat. In: Rainer Vollkommer (Herausgeber): Künstlerlexikon der Antike. Über 3800 Künstler aus drei Jahrtausenden. Nikol, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-937872-53-7, S. 2.

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