Qubbet el-Hawa
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Roko Rumora
Creators: Roko Rumora
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Gabriel Mckee
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 11, 2024 09:45 AM
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History
Qubbet el-Hawa is a site of a group of rock cut tombs known as the Princes' Tomb on the west side of the Nile, opposite Aswan. The tombs mostly date to the Old Kingdom.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/979588215
24.1024895619, 32.8891368913
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Old and Middle Kingdom Tombs (2670 BC - 1640 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Imagery location of the tombs at Qubbet el-Hawa (2670 BC - 2168 BC) accuracy: +/- 2000 meters.
- OSM location of the Tombs of the Nobles (2670 BC - 2168 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- قبة الهوا (Qubbet el-Hawa: Egyptian Arabic, modern)
- Qubbet el-Hawa located west of Nilus (river) (unspecified date range)
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tomb, catacomb, cemetery, necropolis
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Roko Rumora, Jeffrey Becker, and Gabriel Mckee, 'Qubbet el-Hawa: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/979588215> [accessed: 12 March 2025]
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