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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
The late Dr. H. A. Winkler explored parts of the Eastern Desert of Egypt in 1936 and 1937. In his Rock Drawings of Southern Upper Egypt (vol. i, 1938), at his Site 24b, he reported a natural cave shelter in Wādi Menīḥ, in the west rock face (thus ensuring all-day shade). The cave is in the Berenice road, at lat. 25° 37′ N. The cave shelter contains numerous inscriptions of all periods, from primitive rock drawings to hieroglyphic, Graeco-Roman, Nabataean, Christian Greek, and early Arabic. These are all copied in facsimile in Winkler's MS. field notes, reference to which in this study is by courtesy of the Egypt Exploration Society.
page 119 note 1 The position of the cave shelter is shown in my maps in JEA. 39 (1953), and Chron. d'eg. 58 (1954).
page 119 note 2 OGIS. 717; SB. 8384; IGRR. I, 1274.
page 120 note 1 Periplus, 3–4; Schoff ed., notes on pp. 60–6; Jones, and Monroe, Hist, of Abyssinia, 22Google Scholar.
page 120 note 2 Olympiodorus, , Frag. Hist. Graec., 37Google Scholar; Epiphanius, , De XII Gemmis, 244Google Scholar. See my notes, with further references, Bull, of Sch. of Or. Studies, xvi (1954), Classical notesGoogle Scholar.
page 120 note 3 Cosmas Indicopleustes, ed. Winstedt, , 74–5, with note, p. 340Google Scholar; MacCrindle's translation, pp. 59 ff., notes on date etc. This inscription was recently republished in SB. 8545 B (dated first century). Various dates have been given to it, from the first century onwards. A third century date is fairly certain: Jones and Monroe, op. cit., 23–4.
page 120 note 4 Winstedt, op. cit., 75 (with note, p. 343).
page 120 note 5 Cosmas, 339. He says the Ethiopians procured emeralds from the Blemmyes in Ethiopia (i.e. Nubia). Cf. Milne, Egypt under Roman Rule, 104; Winstedt, op. cit., 324 (with note, 356).