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[First posted in AWOL 25 March 2013, updated 26 November 2015]
The Rock Inscriptions Project
This site presents the data gathered by the Rock Inscription and Graffiti Project at the
Institute of Asian and African Studies.
These photographs were assembled before the reversion of the Sinai Peninsula to Egyptian sovereignty in 1982.
The collection is designed to make available images of inscriptions, rock drawings,
Beduin markings and other epigraphs and to organize them including descriptions, coordinates, and locations.
In order to facilitate research into the human traffic in the Wilderness of Sinai,
inscriptions in major published corpora have been included, as will be evident.
To the material from Sinai, we have added epigraphs from the Christian Holy Places and also from the Negev desert.
The collection does not claim to be exhaustive in any way.
The images belong to the Rock Inscriptions and Graffiti project and high resolution images for
study and eventual publication will be made available to scholars on request sent to:
michael.stone@huji.ac.il.
Three volumes of a catalogue have been published:
Michael E. Stone, The Rock Inscriptions and Graffiti Project: Catalogue of Inscriptions.
3 volumes. SBLRBS 28, 29, 31. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1992–94.
The Armenian and Georgian inscriptions have been published:
Michael E. Stone, The Armenian Inscriptions from the Sinai with Appendixes on the
Georgian and Latin Inscriptions by M. van Esbroeck and W. Adler.
Harvard Armenian Texts and Studies 6. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982.
The Ethiopic Inscription has been published:
Emile Puech, 'Une Inscription Ethiopienne ancienne au Sinai (Wadi Hajjaj)', Revue Biblque, 87 (1980) 597-600.
A journal of the Expeditions to the Sinai is currently being edited: Michael E. Stone, A Sinai Diary (forthcoming).
You may view the individual inscription records in one of the following methods:
Proceedings of the multidisciplinary conference on Sinai 2014
On Saturday 29 and Sunday 30 November 2014 a successful
multidisciplinary conference on the Sinai Desert was held at the
Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo. In these Proceedings of the
Multidisciplinary Conference on the Sinai Desert the reader will find a
selection of papers read by participants during this conference. The
Sinai Desert is a key area in many senses, and this peninsula has
through the ages served as a natural land bridge between Asia and
Africa. The multidisciplinary Sinai conference covered a wide variety of
topics, such as: dialects spoken in Sinai today by Bedouin tribes, the
proto-Sinaitic alphabet as discovered at Wadi Maghara, treasures of St.
Catherine’s Monastery, small farming initiatives by Bedouin,
archeological finds, customary law of the Bedouin, etc.
The two days were divided into four sessions, each covering their own
theme: topics in Archaeology, in History, Contemporary subjects and two
sessions discussing different aspects of Heritage Conservation. The
variety of topics was aptly illustrated by the variety of lecturers who
presented their papers. Over 25 speakers participated, ranging from
Egyptian, Italian and Greek scholars to inhabitants of the heart of the
Sinai Desert: each lecturer talked about his or her subject with passion
underscoring the uniqueness and diversity of the area. The conference
was very well attended and was also well received by the participants
themselves. The multidisciplinary approach allowed for a truly
interdisciplinary exchange of thoughts between speakers and audience. We
can look back on a very successful and interesting conference. We
conclude that the conference reached its goal: to map at least some of
the diversity of one of the historical key areas in the Middle Eastern
region: the Sinai Desert.
We would like to thank all participants and everyone else
involved in making this conference such a success. We owe special thanks
to the Netherlands Embassy in Cairo for their generous support, which
enabled us to organize the conference.
Proceedings of the multidisciplinary conference on Sinai.
Table Of Contents
Introduction
A.
Galanos, Y.
Doganis, St. Catherine’s Monastery Complex:
Conservation Highlights
B.
Haring, The Sinai Alphabet: Current State of Research
J. Jacobs, Traditional Tourists and Modern Bedouin: Tourism and Development in the
South Sinai
Hieromonk Justin, The Library of Sinai: A Treasure for Sharing
G. Manginis, Pillar of Fire or Dust? Jabal Mūsā in the Nineteenth Century
R. Nardi, C. Zizola, The conservation of the 6th century mosaic of the Transfiguration in the
Monastery of
Saint Catherine in the Sinai
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