Annius Plocamus: Two Inscriptions from the Berenice Road

1953 ◽  
Vol 43 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 38-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Meredith
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Desert ◽  
Stage I ◽  
The West ◽  
Upper Egypt ◽  
Rock Face ◽  
Field Notes

Without attempting a serious commentary at this stage, I present two short inscriptions in Greek and Latin, from the Eastern Desert of Egypt. They are from the 1936–7 field notes of the late Dr. H. A. Winkler, author of Rock Drawings of Southern Upper Egypt (1938–9), and are published by courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society, the Latin on fig. 14, the Greek from Winkler's facsimile which is clear and complete.These two inscriptions come from a typical Eastern Desert cave-shelter, in the west rock-face of Wādi Menīh at the point in the Berenice road where it is crossed by the line of latitude 25° 37′ N.

An Old Ethiopic Inscription from the Berenice Road

1954 ◽  
Vol 86 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 119-123
Author(s):  
Enno Littmann ◽  
David Meredith
Keyword(s):  
Eastern Desert ◽  
The West ◽  
Upper Egypt ◽  
Rock Face ◽  
Field Notes

The late Dr. H. A. Winkler explored parts of the Eastern Desert of Egypt in 1936 and 1937. In his Rock Drawings of Southern Upper Egypt (vol. i, 1938), at his Site 24b, he reported a natural cave shelter in Wādi Menīḥ, in the west rock face (thus ensuring all-day shade). The cave is in the Berenice road, at lat. 25° 37′ N. The cave shelter contains numerous inscriptions of all periods, from primitive rock drawings to hieroglyphic, Graeco-Roman, Nabataean, Christian Greek, and early Arabic. These are all copied in facsimile in Winkler's MS. field notes, reference to which in this study is by courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society.

Field Notes: Teaching about the West and Water in China

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 496-502
Author(s):  
María E. Montoya
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
Field Notes

Inscriptions from rough Cilicia east of the Calycadnus

1969 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 139-142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theodora S. Mackay ◽  
Pierre A. Mackay
Keyword(s):  
The West ◽  
West Side ◽  
Rock Wall ◽  
Rock Face ◽  
The Road ◽  
River Bed ◽  
Tributary Stream ◽  
British Institute ◽  
Small Tributary ◽  
Stream Bed

The following random lot of inscriptions was noted during three brief trips into the territory around Olba-Diocaesareia, in the spring of 1966, while we were guests at the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara. These trips were part of a year of archaeological wandering made possible by the grant of the Olivia James Travelling Fellowship, administered by the Archaeological Institute of America.1. Seleuceia-Korykos: This inscription was discovered by the able and energetic curator of antiquities at Silifke, Mr. Mehmet Belen, to whose great kindness we owe our knowledge of it. It is cut on a rock face above some faint traces of an ancient road from Korasion to Korykos, which runs parallel to the modern coast road at this point. About 19 km. east of Silifke, the modern road turns north away from the shore, and runs inland along the west side of a seasonal watercourse called Kuru Dere, “dry river bed”. Just north of the gravel bank at the mouth of Kuru Dere, at a point where the rock wall cuts back from the west side of the road to form a very small tributary stream bed, there are faint traces of rock cut steps some 5 metres above the road. Above these, on the south side of the tributary stream bed, a roughly dressed rectangular panel, 0·80 × 0·45 m., has been cut into the rock.

The West Court at Perachora

1967 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
pp. 353-371
Author(s):  
J. J. Coulton
Keyword(s):  
Short Distance ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
East Side ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Rock Face ◽  
North East ◽  
The North ◽  
South West ◽  
East And West

About 10 metres south-west of the sixth-century temple of Hera Akraia at Perachora, and nearly due west of the little harbour lies the small courtyard previously known as the ‘Agora’. Since its purpose is not known, it will here be non-committally referred to as the West Court. It was first excavated in 1932, and more fully, under the supervision of J. K. Brock, in 1933, but it was not entirely cleared until 1939, and it was at that time that the Roman house which stood in the middle of the court was demolished. The West Court is discussed briefly (under the name of ‘Agora’) in Perachora 1 and in the preliminary reports of the Perachora excavations. Short supplementary excavations were carried out in 1964 and 1966 to examine certain points of the structure.In shape the West Court is an irregular pentagon, about 24 metres from north to south and the same from east to west (Fig. 1; Plate 91 a, b). It is enclosed on the west, north, and on part, at least, of the east side by a wall of orthostates on an ashlar foundation. For a short distance on either side of the south corner, the court is bounded by a vertically dressed rock face which is extended to the north-east and west by walls of polygonal masonry. At the south-west corner the west orthostate wall butts against the polygonal wall, which continues for about 0·80 m. beyond it and then returns north for about 8 metres behind it.

Zār in Upper Egypt: Hans Alexander Winkler's Field Notes from 1932

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Johan Natvig
Keyword(s):  
Upper Egypt ◽  
Field Notes

scholarly journals Nicolas Tourechot zwany Granger (około 1680 - 1737) i odkrywanie Górnego Egiptu

1970 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 202-220
Author(s):  
Śliwa Joachim
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
West Bank ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Doctor Who ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Upper Egypt ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theban Necropolis

Nicolas Tourtechot Known as Granger (ca. 1680 - 1737) and The Discovery of Upper Egypt A French doctor, who travelled up of the Nile in the first half of 1731, wrote Relation du voyage fait en Égypte […], published in 1745 (soon his book was published in English and German). Tourtechot, during his transit to the south, noted and described several monuments. He realized that in Luxor and Karnak he was seeing the remains of the ancient Thebes, although he presumably never reached the west bank of the Nile, and the information referring to the Theban necropolis was drawn by him from indirect sources. He intended to go further to the south, but in Edfu local riots made him go back. In his report Tourtechot put Greek inscriptions which he had found in several places (Qus, Esna, Akhmim, Sheikh Abade); in the following years these inscriptions were included in specialist studies. Tourtechot’s information about Coptic monasteries which he had visited during his voyage are also considered important (he managed to visit the monasteries of St. Anthony and St. Paul on the Red Sea, which were difficult to reach). He wrote a great deal about the details of everyday life, nature and customs. Dangerous moments and specific curiosities described by Tourtechot make his simple and unpretentious writing more vivid and appealing for the reader. Tourtechot’s work constitutes an important part in the history of studies on the art and topography of ancient Egypt.

Al-Tahtawi, Rifa’a (1801–1873)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahmoud A. A. Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Educational Innovations ◽  
Upper Egypt ◽  
Scientific Technical ◽  
The 19Th Century

Rifa’a Rafi’ al-Tahtawi was an Egyptian reformer and thinker who is widely recognised as the pioneer of the Egyptian ‘Awakening’ (nahda) in the 19th century. He stands at the cultural heart of the intellectual awakening of Egypt’s modernisation movement that sought to import and implement military, scientific, technical, and educational innovations from the West. His thought influenced many later scholars including prominent sheikhs such as Muhammad Abduh and Rashid Rida. Al-Tahtawi was born in Tahta in Upper Egypt into a family of prominent scholars. In 1817 he moved to Cairo to join the renowned al-Azhar University. His professor sheikh Hasan al-`Attar (1766–1834) had the greatest influence on him. In 1824, Rifa`a was appointed as an imam.

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