Pseudo script at Gebel el Silsila : an introduction to Ancient Egyptian quarry marks
(2012) In Ancient Planet 2. p.96-111- Abstract
- The ancient Egyptian site of Gebel el Silsila is known for its many pharaonic stelai, funerary shrines and the famous rock-cut chapel of Pharaoh Horemheb, but this article leaves the Pharaohs’ chronicles and explores instead a complex and mysterious marking system that is preserved as engravings in the site’s extensive quarries that run on both sides of the Nile. Here we will investigate Graeco-Roman quarry marks, also known as masons’ marks, to learn about their possible practical and symbolic meanings.
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- author
- Nilsson, Maria LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 2012
- type
- Contribution to specialist publication or newspaper
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Gebel el Silsila, survey, pseudo script, graffiti, quarry, egyptology, archaeology, epigraphy
- categories
- Popular Science
- in
- Ancient Planet
- volume
- 2
- pages
- 96 - 111
- ISSN
- 2241-5157
- project
- Pseudo script in Gebel el Silsila, a query into quarry marks, characters, codes and magic
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 26df0458-62b5-46ba-bb2d-675e75288438 (old id 4927549)
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- 2016-04-04 09:05:00
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