The Wadi Mukattab (Arabic for "Valley of Writing"), also known as the Valley of Inscriptions, is a wadi on Egypt's Sinai Peninsula near St Catherine's Monastery. It links the main road in the Wadi Feiran with the Wadi Maghareh's ancient turquoise mining area.[1] The wadi is named after its valley's many petroglyphs. Nabataean [2] and Greek [3] inscriptions are abundant.
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Lepsius's route in 1859, showing the inscriptions -
Wadi Mukattab in the 1869 Ordnance Survey map -
Nabataean inscriptions in the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum in Wadi Mukattab
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Citations[edit]
- ^ Rothenberg & Weyer (1979), p. 100.
- ^ Bowersock (1983), p. 94.
- ^ Dahari, Calderson & Israel (2000), p. 14.
Bibliography[edit]
- Bowersock, Glen Warren (1983), Roman Arabia, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-77756-5
- Dahari, Uzi; Calderson, Rivka; Israel, Rashut ha-attiqot (2000), Monastic Settlements in South Sinai in the Byzantine Period: The Archaeological Remains, Israel Antiquities Authorities Reports, No. 9, Israel Antiquities Authority, ISBN 978-9654060370.
- Rothenberg, Beno; Weyer, Helfried (1979), Sinai: Pharaohs, Miners, Pilgrims, and Soldiers, Binns, ISBN 978-0896740020.
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28°51′42″N 33°25′22″E / 28.8616°N 33.4227°E