La zone minière pharaonique du Sud-Sinaï II. Les inscriptions pré- et protodynastiques du ouadi ’Ameyra (CCIS n°273-335). MIFAO 132. Architecture – Paysage Volume III: Legends and Commentaries

Volume III: Legends and Commentaries

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La zone minière pharaonique du Sud-Sinaï II. Les inscriptions pré- et protodynastiques du ouadi ’Ameyra (CCIS n°273-335). MIFAO 132. Architecture – Paysage Volume III: Legends and CommentariesThe site of Wadi Ameyra was discovered during a prospecting campaign carried out in South Sinai in 2012. On the upper part of a rock face overlooking the drain of a small wadi appears a large series of drawings and texts attesting to the presence of Egyptian teams in the southwest of the Peninsula throughout a period of at least four centuries, between Naqada III A (c. 3200 BC) and the beginning of the Second Dynasty (c. 2800 BC). In particular,