# John Coleman Darnell 2002: Theban Desert Road Survey in the Egyptian Western Desert, Volume 1: Gebel Tjauti Rock Inscriptions 1-45 and Wadi el-Hol Rock Inscriptions 1-45

> John Coleman Darnell, Deborah Darnell, Renée Friedman et al., 2002. 7 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Oriental Institute Publications 119…

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# Theban Desert Road Survey in the Egyptian Western Desert, Volume 1: Gebel Tjauti Rock Inscriptions 1-45 and Wadi el-Hol Rock Inscriptions 1-45

John Coleman Darnell, Deborah Darnell, Renée Friedman et al., 2002.

**Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet** BookCopy of **[The two Wadi el-Hol inscriptions](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/artifacts/ART0DEDT6X8ASZB/the-two-wadi-el-hol-inscriptions)** doi: **[10.83354/pqnz-8v26](https://doi.org/10.83354/pqnz-8v26)** 0

## What it's used for here

Oriental Institute Publications 119, Chicago. The Egyptian rock inscriptions of the Wadi el-Hol (including the Middle Kingdom texts naming Bebi, "general of the Asiatics") that give the alphabetic inscriptions their context; free PDF under CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.

## Cited by on this site 7 records

[The two Wadi el-Hol inscriptions](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/artifacts/ART0DEDT6X8ASZB/the-two-wadi-el-hol-inscriptions)

ART

[Wadi el-Hol: the Egyptian rock inscriptions in context (OIP 119, free PDF)](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/copies/CPY0DEDTQQDJ6T0/wadi-el-hol-the-egyptian-rock-inscriptions-in-context-oip)

CPY

[Theban Desert Road Survey volume 1 (OIP 119): Wadi el-Hol rock inscriptions 1-45, free PDF](https://mysteriesdept.com/datasets/DAT0DEDVHAW287X/theban-desert-road-survey-volume-1-oip-119-wadi-el-hol-rock)

Dataset

DAT

[The Wadi el-Hol inscriptions, in the same script, sit among Egyptian inscriptions of the late Twelfth Dynasty, so the…](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/evidence/EVD0DEE97CKFCYT/the-wadi-el-hol-inscriptions-in-the-same-script-sit-among)

Evidence

EVD

[John and Deborah Darnell announce the two Wadi el-Hol inscriptions found in 1993; the full edition follows in 2005](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/events/EVT0DEDS0Q28YQB/john-and-deborah-darnell-announce-the-two-wadi-el-hol)

EVT

[John Coleman Darnell](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic/people/FIG0DEDQBZWE1XG/john-coleman-darnell)

FIG

[Proto-Sinaitic and Wadi el-Hol: the first alphabet](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/proto-sinaitic)

The mystery article

MYS

## Cite it

```
John Coleman Darnell, Deborah Darnell, Renée Friedman, & Stan Hendrickx (2002). Theban Desert Road Survey in the Egyptian Western Desert, Volume 1: Gebel Tjauti Rock Inscriptions 1-45 and Wadi el-Hol Rock Inscriptions 1-45. https://doi.org/10.83354/pqnz-8v26
```

[Find it at isac.uchicago.edu](https://isac.uchicago.edu/publications/theban-desert-road-survey-egyptian-western-desert-volume-1)

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