257. Mraybet, al- | المريبط

Ma‘ān Governorate

Maqām Faraj Mfarrej

JADIS no. none.

MEGA no. none .

Coordinates: unknown.

Plan: cemetery, predominantly humble tombs. Some of them are lined with stones with a single upright wooden stick and white clothes wrapped around it. According to Miettunnen 2013 (102) the main tomb of Faraj is marked by five stone slabs making a curved structure. “A large wooden stake stands at the head of the tomb, covered from top to bottom with several layers of wrapped white rags. Small flat stones have been placed beside the grave, and incense has been burned on six of them.“

Measurements: unknown.

Building Materials: unknown.

Construction details: unknown.

Preservation: intact.

Inscription(s): illegible faded inscribed Arabic letters on one of the slabs.

Date(s): The present author (TMW-K) visited the site for first time in 1988 in the frame of the field course of the German Protestant Institute for Archaeology Amman. There is no dating evidence for the cemetery in general. The buried person is probably an ancestor of the ‘Iyyāl  Mfarrej, a subtribe of the local al-Sa‘īdīyīn.

Traveler Reports: none known.

Bibliography: Miettunnen 2013, 102-103 no. 10; 208 fig. 11