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KV2 contains the second-highest number of ancient graffiti within it (after KV9), with 656 individual graffiti left by both Ancient Greek and Roman visitors. [8] This tomb also contains around 50 or so examples of Coptic graffiti, mostly sketched onto the right wall by the entranceway. [ 9 ]
AWIB-ISAW: Graffiti at Kalabsha (II) A Coptic cross carved into the wall of the Roman-era temple at Kalabsha. The graffito was likely carved during the years the temple served as a Coptic church. by Iris Fernandez (2009) copyright: 2009 Iris Fernandez (used with permission) photographed place: Talmis (Kalabsha) [1]
Jules Baillet has located over 2,100 Greek and Latin instances of graffiti, along with a smaller number in Phoenician, Cypriot, Lycian, Coptic, and other languages. [31] The majority of the ancient graffiti is found in KV9, which contains just under a thousand of them. The earliest positively dated graffiti dates to 278 BC. [45]
Many of the tombs contain graffiti written by these ancient tourists. Jules Baillet located over 2100 Greek and Latin graffiti, along with a smaller number in Phoenician, Cypriot, Lycian, Coptic, and other languages. [1] The majority of the ancient graffiti are found in KV9, which contains just under a thousand of them.
Other graffiti include "I visited and I did not like anything except the sarcophagus!", "I admired!" and "I cannot read the hieroglyphs!". [ 11 ] The latest identifiable person to have visited the tomb and left a graffito may have been Amr ibn al-As , the Muslim conqueror of Roman Egypt during the Arab–Byzantine wars , if he is the person ...
Ayrton noted numerous graffiti scratched into the walls. [1] On the right side is a graffito that records the name of a hitherto unknown Scribe in the Place of Truth Ptahemwia. On the left wall are two graffiti: one names the tomb's owner; the other names the Overseer of the Workshop of the Mansion of Gold Ser-[Dje]huty. [10]
In 2001, an 18-year-old committed to a Texas boot camp operated by one of Slattery’s previous companies, Correctional Services Corp., came down with pneumonia and pleaded to see a doctor as he struggled to breathe.
Hammamat became the major route from Thebes to the Red Sea and then to the Silk Road that led to Asia, or to Arabia and the horn of Africa. This 200 km journey was the most direct route from the Nile to the Red Sea, as the Nile bends toward the coast at the western end of the wadi.