Description: Natural rock-cut cave, with a small recess to the left of the entrance and a deeper one to the right, whose interior walls carry prehistoric graffiti as well as Greek inscriptions. There are graffito images of a gazelle on the roof to the left, of a bird, and of a group of birds, probably partridges.
Text: Inscribed on the walls and ceiling of the entrance and of both recesses. (1) beside the bird to the left of the entry; (2) beyond the gazelle; (3) below no. 2; (4) on the rock face opposite, beside the entry to a small recess, and below a natural niche; (5) above no. 4 and below another niche; there is a group of birds upside down to this and another (illegible) text below it; (6) above no. 5; (7) to the right of no. 6 and above the birds; (8) below no. 7 and near ground level; (9) to the right of no. 8 and round a half-comer leading towards the larger recess, above a niche; (10) below the same niche; (11) beside the same niche; (12) within the deep recess, on the roof near the entrance:
Letters: Various hands, third century BCE- third century CE. 2: the last 3 letters in a monogram 8b: ε with Ε; ligature, ΥΚ ; 10: nu written backwards

Date: Third century BCE- third century CE

Findspot: Sites between Berenike and Taucheira: Wadi Zaza; first recorded by Mansour Abdussalem and Abdul-hamid Abdussaid in 1971.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot.

Bibliography: Abdussalem-Reynolds, 1997, 1, whence SEG 47.2200
Text constituted from: Transcription (Reynolds).

Images

   Fig. 1. Detail, Text 7 (Reynolds 1971, NS.XIV.28)

   Fig. 2. Text 10 (Reynolds 1971, NS.XIV.29)

   Fig. 3. Detail (Reynolds 1971, NS.XIV.30)

   Fig. 4. Text 2 (Reynolds 1971, NS.XIV.33)

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