Qubbet el-Hawa

Coordinates: 24°06′06.37″N 32°53′20.97″E / 24.1017694°N 32.8891583°E / 24.1017694; 32.8891583

For other uses, see Hawa (disambiguation).

Qubbet el-Hawa is a site of a group of Rock-cut tombs on the western Bank of the Nile, opposite Aswan.

Qubbet el-Hawa Tomb.

Ancient Egyptian site

The elite Tombs date mainly from the Old Kingdom which provide an insight into the burial traditions of Upper Egyptian Nome 1 during the later Old Kingdom. The tombs include the famous tomb of Harkhuf. Others belong to Sabni or Heqaib. There are later tombs, from the Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom. Excavation work continues.

Coptic site

The hill is also the site of a Coptic monastery and some of the tombs were reused as a Coptic church.

Bibliography

Elmar Edel (edited by Karl-J. Seyfried, Gerd Vieler): Die Felsgräbernekropole der Qubbet el-Hawa bei Assuan. I. Abteilung. (Band 1-3, Pläne und Tafeln). Architektur, Darstellungen, Texte, archäologischer Befund und Funde der Gräber QH 24 - QH 209. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn, 2008. ISBN 978-3-506-76343-3.
Elmar Edel: Die Felsengräber der Qubbet el-Hawa bei Assuan. Wiesbaden 1967-1971.
Elmar Edel: Die Reiseberichte des Harchuf (Hrw-hwff) in seinem Grab am Qubbet el-Hawa (34n). Berlin 1955.
Elmar Edel: Beiträge zu den Inschriften des Mittleren Reiches in den Gräbern der Qubbet el-Hawa. Berlin 1971.
Elmar Edel: Altägyptische Fürstengräber bei Assuan. Ausgrabungen auf der Qubbet el-Hawa. Berlin 1966.
Alan Gardiner: Geschichte des Alten Ägypten. 1962.
Labib Habachi: 16 Studies on lower Nubia. In: Annales du services des Antiquities de l'Egypte. (ASAE) Nr. 23, 1981.
Labib Habachi: The Sanctuary of Heqaib. Mainz 1985.
Michael Höveler-Müller: Funde aus dem Grab 88 der Qubbet el-Hawa bei Assuan. (Die Bonner Bestände), Wiesbaden 2006.
M. R. Jenkins: Notes on the Tomb of Setka at Qubbett el-Hawa, Aswan. In: Bulletin of the Australian Center for Egyptology. (BACE) Bd. 11, Sydney 1999 S. 67-81.
Jacques de Morgan: Catalogue des monuments et inscriptions de l’Egypte antique. Wien 1894.
Hans Wolfgang Müller: Die Felsengräber der Fürsten von Elephantine aus der Zeit des Mittleren Reiches. Glückstadt 1940.
Friedrich Wilhelm Rösing: Qubbet el-Hawa und Elephantine. Zur Bevölkerungsgeschichte von Ägypten. Fischer, Stuttgart/ New York 1990, ISBN 3-437-50325-1.
Kurt Sethe, Urkunden des Alten Reiches. , Abteilung I, Band I, Heft 1-4, Leipzig 1932-3.

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