The Wadi Shatt el-Rigal

by Ricardo A. Caminos and Jurgen Osing

Book cover: The Wadi Shatt el-Rigal

Extent: 238 pages

Publisher: Egypt Exploration Society

Subjects: Ancient Egypt

Series: Excavation Memoir

Series volume number: 118

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(April 2021)

ISBN: 9780856982446

Price: $120.00

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This volume presents the 1983 findings at Wadi Shatt el-Rigal, part of the Gebel el-Silsila site. It details over 800 inscriptions and rock-drawings from the late Eleventh Dynasty, including the well-known reliefs of Mentuhotep II and III.


This volume, part of the wider EES publications on the site of Gebel el-Silsila, covers the results of the 1983 season at nearby Wadi Shatt el-Rigal, famous for its abundance of epigraphic records from the late Eleventh Dynasty. The reason for their presence in this remote site has remained an intriguing problem that has been much debated. Besides the three well-known royal reliefs of Mentuhotep II and Mentuhotep III, the mission under Ricardo Caminos and assisted by Jurgen Osing documented more than 800 inscriptions and rock-drawings, which until now have remained only partially published. Follow-up work in 2004 has allowed for checks on the previous work, which can now be made fully accessible.

  • By (author) Ricardo A. Caminos
  • By (author) Jurgen Osing