DOI Artikel:
Godlewski, Włodzimierz: Polish excavations at Naqlun (1988-1989)
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.42008#0036
Unite consisted of two rooms as well, but was much less carefully executed
than B. In the roomC.l typical equipment was found including several niches cut
in the walls, a bench against the North wall and a pit in the South-Western
comer. This pit was also found to be filled with homogeneous fill and partly
covered with a mud floor. The fill was similar in character to the contents of
thepitinB.l, but the number of recovered objects was much smaller, consisting
mainlyofpottery, leather products (sandals), glass and sections of rope.
The walls of the roomDwere preserved quite low. Inside there was a small
kitchen with two hearths which served to prepare meals. Beneath the north wall
there was a wide, comfortable bench.
Asawholehermitage25, quite carefully planned and executed, was intended
forthreepersons. We may expect^ amaster and two monks to have lived here. From
its courtyard there was a spectacular view out onto the green oasis.
The dating is problematic. The archaeological materials found in the two
pits, in B.l and in C.l, show that the dwelling was definitely in use in the 7th
century. The second phase of the hermitage, when the complex was carefully
renovated and all the pits filled, may be dated to the turn of the 7th and 8th
centuries. With time, the rooms of the unit A were excluded, probably because
the ceiling has been partly fallen in; only two persons seem to inhabit the
hermitage since then. Host probably at the same time the small kitchen D was
also abandoned, and Coptic documents found there allow to suppose that this may
have happened in the 9th century. It would appear that in its last phase the
hermitage consisted only of units B and C. Late Coptic and Arabic texts found in
the fill are proof of this. The paleography of numerous texts written on paper
which were uncovered in rooms A.1, B.l and C,1 would suggest the occupation
still in the 12th-13th centuries. But the fact that the texts are to be found in
alltherooms, including A.l, leads us to assumption that they had been blown in
hereby the wind either from neighboring hermitages or from the monastery dump.
The absence of glazed pottery is significant in this respect.
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than B. In the roomC.l typical equipment was found including several niches cut
in the walls, a bench against the North wall and a pit in the South-Western
comer. This pit was also found to be filled with homogeneous fill and partly
covered with a mud floor. The fill was similar in character to the contents of
thepitinB.l, but the number of recovered objects was much smaller, consisting
mainlyofpottery, leather products (sandals), glass and sections of rope.
The walls of the roomDwere preserved quite low. Inside there was a small
kitchen with two hearths which served to prepare meals. Beneath the north wall
there was a wide, comfortable bench.
Asawholehermitage25, quite carefully planned and executed, was intended
forthreepersons. We may expect^ amaster and two monks to have lived here. From
its courtyard there was a spectacular view out onto the green oasis.
The dating is problematic. The archaeological materials found in the two
pits, in B.l and in C.l, show that the dwelling was definitely in use in the 7th
century. The second phase of the hermitage, when the complex was carefully
renovated and all the pits filled, may be dated to the turn of the 7th and 8th
centuries. With time, the rooms of the unit A were excluded, probably because
the ceiling has been partly fallen in; only two persons seem to inhabit the
hermitage since then. Host probably at the same time the small kitchen D was
also abandoned, and Coptic documents found there allow to suppose that this may
have happened in the 9th century. It would appear that in its last phase the
hermitage consisted only of units B and C. Late Coptic and Arabic texts found in
the fill are proof of this. The paleography of numerous texts written on paper
which were uncovered in rooms A.1, B.l and C,1 would suggest the occupation
still in the 12th-13th centuries. But the fact that the texts are to be found in
alltherooms, including A.l, leads us to assumption that they had been blown in
hereby the wind either from neighboring hermitages or from the monastery dump.
The absence of glazed pottery is significant in this respect.
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