From the Pontic Area and Caucasus to the Nile Valley
From the Pontic Area and Caucasus to the Nile Valley

Evidence of Graffiti on the Walls of a Pharaoh’s Tomb

Author(s): Adam Łukaszewicz
Subject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Egypt; Tomb of Ramesses VI; visitors; Greek graffiti; Pontus; Caucasus
Summary/Abstract: This paper concerns written evidence of visits to Egypt of inhabitants of the Pontic area in wall inscriptions found in the tomb of the pharaoh Ramesses VI in the Theban Valley of the Kings. These graffiti belong to the Hellenistic and Roman period and are written in Greek, the international language of the time.

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