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ID: 8712314
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/8712314
Record Type:
administrative
Wadi Sura I (abandoned dwelling)
Coordinates:
Lat: 23 35 38 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 23.5947
decimal degrees
Long: 025 13 58 E
degrees minutes
Long: 25.2335
decimal degrees
Note:
Well-known cave in the Wadi Sura, on the Gilf Kebir plateau of the Libyan Desert, containing Neolithic pictographs of humans. Discovered in 1933 by Hungarian Lázló Almásy.
Names:
Wadi Sura I
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
,
display
)
Swimmers, Cave of
(
C
,
V
)
Cave of Swimmers
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Egypt
(nation) (
P
)
............
Al Wādī al Jadīd
(governorate) (
P
)
................
Wadi Sura I
(abandoned dwelling) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Egypt
(nation) (
P
)
............
Al Wādī al Jadīd
(governorate) (
P
)
................
Şūrah, Wādī
(wadi) (
P,
U
)
....................
Wadi Sura I
(abandoned dwelling) (
P
)
Place Types:
abandoned dwelling (
preferred
,
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
cave (
C
)
Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....
Archers, Cave of
.......... (abandoned dwelling)
..............................
(World, Africa, Egypt, Al Wādī al Jadīd) [8712316]
Sources and Contributors:
Cave of Swimmers..........
[
VP
]
.............................
AATA database (1995-)
.............................
Kuper, Archaeology of the Gilf Kebir National Park (2007)
Swimmers, Cave of..........
[
VP Preferred
]
................................
Getty Vocabulary Program rules
Wadi Sura I..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Wadi Sura Projekt (2018-)
accessed 16 October 2018
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Kuper, Archaeology of the Gilf Kebir National Park (2007)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
AATA database (1995-)
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