Wadi Mukattab

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.

Fragmentary natural slab, red sandstone. It is incised with Nabataean or Sinaitic inscriptions. From Wadi Mukattab, Egypt. Probably Nabataean period. The British Museum, London

Gallery

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  Lepsius's route in 1859, showing the inscriptions
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  Wadi Mukattab in the 1869 Ordnance Survey map
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  Nabataean inscriptions in the Corpus Inscriptionum Semiticarum in Wadi Mukattab

See also

• Georgian graffiti of Nazareth and Sinai
• Rivers of Egypt
• Biblical Sinai