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Because this tomb was never finished, it tells us about how the monuments were made. that immaculately clean cut appearance of the facade was achieved through deliberate stages. what you can see here, this is the first stage. and then you can see the second stage. and then you have the third and the fourth. oh, yes! 0k? and then the stonemason have to chisel it down until then we have the final stage which is this more smoother facade. it s really clear here. this tomb is one of the great treasures of hegra, not least because it tells us something about the people who built it. i want to find out more about the structure of nabataean society. and to do that i ve arranged to meet academic doctor solaiman al theeb. he s a leading expert on one of the other things that makes this such an important site revealing evidence left ....
Here by the nabataeans in the form of the written word. let s go to show you one of the famous ladies in nabataean society. her name is kamkam, daughterof wa ilah. and is this her tomb here? yeah, yeah. that s her tomb, yes. she built this grave for her and for her daughter as well. this is a very famous inscription related to the nabataean period. the amazing thing is that she didn t say that she is a daughter of her father. she said that she is the daughter of her mother. ah. so what can we learn about women in nabataean society? a woman wrote the inscription, she built the tomb for herself and her daughters. what does that tell us? as a matter of fact, the women at that time, they were free in trade and they were working in high positions, in religious positions. so they were really involved in nabataean society ....
At that time, yeah. do we know if the women were involved in trade? were they merchants? oh, yes. yes. did they buy, did they sell? what did they do? yeah, i think they traded the same as men. and we have a very good example it s kamkam. i think she s a rich lady and she has a lot of money, and therefore she was able to build her grave here, yeah. so is it too much to say that the nabataeans were feminists? i think it s too much, yeah, but. she laughs yeah, yeah, but. but we could rule, we could say that these ladies lived there, the women in the society, in nabataean society, to be free and to take a very important role in their life. this is a very, very clear inscription. this language is it a forerunner of arabic? as a matter of fact, classical arabic script derived from the nabataean ....
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