Uwainat
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 Satellite photo from Mount Uwainat |
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| height | 1934 m | |
| location | in the border triangle of Egypt , Libya and Sudan | |
| Coordinates | 21 ° 55 ′ 1 " N , 25 ° 0 ′ 12" E | |
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Gabal Uwainat (1934 m; Arabic جبل عوينات Jabal ʿUwaināt , Egyptian-Arabic : Gabal ʿUwaināt ; also Auenat , Ouenat , Ouinat , Owainat , Uwaynat , Uweinat , Uwenat , Uweynat and many more) is a mountain in the Egyptian - Libyan - Sudanese border triangle. The name means "mountain of small springs".
geography
The national borders are drawn with a ruler in this part of the Sahara . The highest point at 1934 meters, Mount Bagnold, and the larger part of the massif are in Libya. Jabal Arkanu lies about 40 km north-northwest on Libyan terrain.
geology
The Gebel Uweinat is a granitic intrusion . Valleys are named here instead of Wadi Karkur .
The Gabal Uwainat can be geologically divided into two areas.
The western part is the eroded part of a granite dome that appears today as a ring complex (25 km in diameter). To the west, the Gabal Uwainat is drained through three large valleys: Karkur Hamid, Karkur Idriss and Karkur Ibrahim. Two springs can be found in the south: Ain Ghazal and Ain Doua. These springs are only fed from rainwater, but they have not dried up in memory.
The eastern area consists of Paleozoic sandstone that rests on the Precambrian basement. The complex valley systems in the east flow into the Karkur Talh. In the Karkur Murr there is a permanent water point (so-called Guelta ) Ain al-Brins (Bir Murr).
history
In prehistoric times this area was still inhabited. Thousands of rock carvings have been discovered in the Uwainat .
Exploring the Gabal Uwainat
- Ahmed Pasha Hassanein: found water deposits and rock carvings at Jabal Uwainat in 1923 and mapped the area.
- Ralph Alger Bagnold : was traveling by car in the desert region around 1930.
- 1933 Ludovico Di Caporiacco
- 1933 Ladislaus Almásy , Leo Frobenius and Hans Rhotert
- 1937 interdisciplinary Bagnold moon expedition
- 1962 E. Bellini and S. Ariè documented rock art in Karkūr Idrīs
- 1968/1969 Francis van Noten documented the Karkūr Ṭalḥ with his team
- Documentation by András Zboray since 1998
- 2007 Mark Borda and Mahmoud Marai discovered a hieroglyphic inscription and the cartouche of King Mentuhotep II.
literature
- Hassanein Bey, A [hmad] M [uhammad]: Riddle of the desert . Brockhaus, Leipzig 1926 (translation of the novel "Lost Oases".).
- DiCaporiacco, Lodovico; Graziosi, Paolo: Le pitture rupestri di Àin Dòua (el-Auenàt) . Istituto geogr. militare, Firenze 1934.
- Hans Rhotert : Libyan rock paintings: Results of the 11th and 12th German inner-African research expedition (Diafe) 1933/1934/1935 . Wittich, Darmstadt 1952.
- Hans Alexander Winkler: Rock drawings of Southern Upper Egypt; 2: Including 'Uwēnât: Sir Robert Mond desert expedition; season 1937-1938, premiminary report . The Egypt Exploration Society; Oxford University Press, London 1939.
- Francis van Noten: Rock Art of the Jebel Uweinat <Libyan Sahara> . Akad. Druck- u. Verlagsanst., Graz 1978.
See also
annotation
- ↑ Bagnold, RA; Myers, OH; Peel, RF; Winkler, HA: An Expedition to the Gilf Kebir and 'Uweinat, 1938 . In: The Geographic Journal . tape 93 , no. 4 , 1939, ISSN 1475-4959 , pp. 281-313 .
- ↑ Bellini, E.; Ariè, S .: Segnalazione di pitture rupestri in località Carcur Dris nel Gebel Auenat (Libia) . In: Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche . tape 17 , 1962, ISSN 0035-6514 , pp. 261-267 .
- ↑ Zboray, A .: New rock art findings at Jebel Uweinat and the Gilf Kebir . In: Sahara: preistoria e storia del Sahara . tape 14 , 2003, ISSN 1120-5679 , p. 111-127 .
- ^ Joseph Clayton, Aloisia de Trafford; Mark Borda: A hieroglyphic inscription found at Jebel Uweinat mentioning Yam and Tekhebet . In: Sahara: preistoria e storia del Sahara . tape 19 , 2008, ISSN 1120-5679 , p. 129-134 .
