Database: Remembrance of the Forgotten
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In 60 or 61 CE, a certain Hinat had the following message engraved on the façade of the tomb she commissioned among those in this necropolis: "This is the tomb that Hinat, daughter of Wahbu, dug for herself, her children, and her descendants, forever. No one has the right to sell it, to pledge it, or to draw up a lease for this tomb. And whoever acts otherwise will see his share go to his rightful heir. In the twenty-first year of King Maliku, king of the Nabataeans." Nearly 2,000 years later, archaeologists have been able to establish that several dozen bodies were placed in this tomb, including one that may be Hinat herself, a woman of 40 to 50 years old.