The Paintings and Rock Inscriptions in Jeddah of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Galal Mahmoud, Mohamed

doi:10.21608/ijaswa.2022.248432

The Paintings and Rock Inscriptions in Jeddah of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia "An Analytic study"

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Mohamed Galal Mahmoud

Lecturer at College of Archeology and Tourism Guidance, Department of Arab-Peninsula Archaeology, Misr University For science &Technology

10.21608/ijaswa.2022.248432

Abstract

The theme of this research aims to discuss a new vision for the rock
Art that have puzzled archaeologists and spread in the mountains of
Wadi Fatima and its various branches in the city of Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia. The study dealt with seven sites of rock Art in the vicinity of
the city of Jeddah, four of which were published in Atlal Magazine
No. 11, where they are represented respectively in the first site; “Jabal
Al-Qasab” on the highway of Jeddah-Taif, about 60 km southeast of
Jeddah, the second site; “Bremen” located in the north-east of Jeddah,
the third site; “Abhr” located northwest of Jeddah, which is destroyed,
and the fourth site; "Umm Hablain" located north-east of Jeddah. It is
worth mentioning that the study will be re-analyzed the sceneries and
inscriptions to have new analyzes for some mysterious scenes that
were not discussed in the study published in Atlal Magazine No. 11,
such as the strange "Umm Hablain site" scene, where the study will be
interpreted as one of the jumping rituals on the animal of Eland.
Spread in Africa, especially in Namibia, which has many ritual
indications referred to in the text of the study, this in addition to the
translation of the surrounding Thamudic inscriptions, which have not
been translated and investigated before.
As for the other three unpublished sites, they are represented
respectively in the Fifth site known as the inscriptions of Wadi Hura,
located to the north-east of Al-Jumum. The Sixth site known as the
rock drawings in the Khuzam Palace Historical Museum, which were
found in a place near Salman Bay located in the north of Jeddah, on
one of the rocky hills in the Abhr area.

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