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[QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [QB] [QUOTE] [IMG]http://www.fjexpeditions.com/desert/archeology/ancientroute/Uweinat_Mentuhotep_8.jpg[/IMG] The lower inscription is the repetition of the upper one, with the name of the land and the produce replaced. It reads [i]Tkhb-t(n?) hr ms ...[/i] ("Tekhebet bringing ..."). This is the only known reference to this land. Clayton and Trafford suggest the reading of [i]Tkhb-t[/i], suggesting the "n" sign to be a duplicate determinative (the [i]Tkhb[/i] root means "watered, irrigated"). However at close look, I can only see a single "n" sign, which would make the reading an alternate [i]Tkhb-tn[/i]. In both cases the name would seem to imply "The place with water". There is tantalizing logical jump to the present day name of Jebel Uweinat, in Arabic "The mountain of the little springs". The produce is totally illegible with the exception of the first sign which is clearly a "t", however the image of an oryx antelope would fit the wildlife expectable at an Uweinat mountain slightly wetter than today. However [URL=http://www.]this is purely a hypothesis at the moment, that cannot be proven either way until further references to this place are found[/URL].[/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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