Wadi Hammamat (Arabic: وادي الحمامات, romanized: Wādī al-Ḥammāmāt, lit. 'Valley of Many Baths', Coptic: ⲣⲱϩⲉⲛⲧⲟⲩ, romanized: rōhentou, lit. 'India way;...
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Mentuhotep IV (section Wadi Hammamat (Eastern Desert))
Turin Canon for which there is no recorded king. In Wadi Hammamat, a rock inscription (Hammamat M 191) with the royal name of Mentuhotep IV also mentions...
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Baufra (section Baufra in Wadi Hammamat)
from a story in the Papyrus Westcar and from a rock inscription at Wadi Hammamat. He is neither contemporarily nor archaeologically attested, which makes...
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Khufu (section Wadi Maghareh)
inscriptions at Elkab and Elephantine and in local quarries at Hatnub and Wadi Hammamat. At Saqqara two terracotta figures of the goddess Bastet were found...
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Pinker - percussion on "Girl from the Wadi Hammamat" Hijaz Mustapha - strings on "Girl from the Wadi Hammamat" Johnnie Fingers - Tokyo pachinko parlor...
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inscriptions in the Wadi Hammamat. The only event known from his reign in some detail, is a quarrying expedition to the Wadi Hammamat, perhaps to procure...
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the stone quarries of Wadi Hammamat and the turquoise mines of the Sinai. The Great Rock stela of Ramesses IV at Wadi Hammamat records that the largest...
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mountainous Eastern Desert with its wadis draining into the valley. Significant among these wadis is Wadi Hammamat near Thebes. It was used as an overland...
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Stone quarries of ancient Egypt (section Wadi Hammamat)
Four Tetrarchs Koptos is located in Wadi Rohanu. Typical materials known from this site are: Black slate Wadi Hammamat is a quarrying area located in the...
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Sobekemsaf I (section Wadi Hammamat)
have been Sekhemre-Heruhirmaat Intef or possibly Senakhtenre Ahmose. Wadi Hammamat is a road from the Nile River near Koptos to Quseir on the Red Sea coast...
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originated, with mineralogical and chemical analysis pointing to the Wadi Hammamat quarries, which are located in the desert to the east of Alexandria...
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Punt during the Middle Kingdom, using ships constructed at the end of Wadi Hammamat, on the Red Sea. Mentuhotep III was succeeded by Mentuhotep IV, whose...
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appeared only in 1997. In 2001, R. C. Steiner called a scorpion spell from Wadi Hammamat "another Aramaic text in demotic script". The scholar who discovered...
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copper. Other exploited sites includes the schist quarries at Wadi Hammamat, amethyst from Wadi el-Hudi, fine limestone from Tura, alabaster from Hatnub,...
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been discovered and is known only from a cliff-face inscription at Wadi Hammamat in the Eastern Desert, where there were several quarries in Pharaonic...
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Please refer to Wadi Hammamat#Trade route. Please refer to Wadi Hammamat#Carvings. Please refer to Wadi Hammamat#Quarries and Wadi Hammamat#Common era. Jobbins...
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has been catalogued as TT313. He is known from two inscriptions, in Wadi Hammamat no. 114 (ca. 2000 BC) as hnw and in his Deir el-Bahari tomb as hnnw...
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(1984). "Ein Zauberspruch gegen Skorpione im Wadi Hammamat" [A Spell against Scorpions in Wadi Hammamat]. In Thissen, Heinz-J. [in German]; Zauzich, Karl-Th...
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The map shows a 15-kilometre stretch of Wadi Hammamat and has depictions of this wadi's confluence with wadis Atalla and el-Sid, the surrounding hills...
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probably the same as the vizier named Amenemhat who led an expedition to Wadi Hammamat under his predecessor Mentuhotep IV, and possibly overthrew him from...
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manufacturing statuary and cosmetic palettes. The siltstone quarried at Wadi Hammamat was a hard, fine-grained siltstone that resisted flaking and was almost...
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dating to about 1160 BCE, shows the route to the gold mines in the Wadi Hammamat, Eastern Desert. The mines in Ancient Egypt were worked by slaves who...
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with a few exceptions. The siltstone originated from quarries in the Wadi Hammamat. Many of the palettes were found at Hierakonpolis, a centre of power...
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well-attested quarry that has been used since pre-dynastic times at Wadi Hammamat. This material was used extensively during the pre-dynastic period for...
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Ptolemaic era was Myos Hormos. Historically, it was the endpoint of the Wadi Hammamat trail, an important route connecting Egypt and the Red Sea. El Qoseir...
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In 1946, Goyon discovered an "abecedary incised on black granite" in Wadi Hammamat. In 1977, he published a ramp model with a single spiral ramp for the...
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of grey granite that chemical analysis has indicated comes from the Wadi Hammamat in eastern Egypt. It was made in Egypt and later brought to Susa possibly...
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cannot be excluded. Merenre sent at least one mining expedition to Wadi Hammamat in the Eastern Desert to collect greywacke and siltstone. Weni, who...
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reign was that two remarkable omens were witnessed at the quarry of Wadi Hammamat by the vizier Amenemhat. Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt family tree Schneider...
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expeditions to Punt (in modern Somalia) by way of the path through the Wadi Hammamat to the Red Sea port at Tjau (modern El Qoseir). In ancient Egypt, Qift...
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