Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (10.1998(1999))

MARINA EL-ALAMEIN

EGYPT

Also in this structure the surviving
walls were 0.80 m high at the most and
were further lowered once the eroded tops
were removed. For the purposes of protec-
tion and display, these walls had to be
built up to at least 1.00 m. Again, the
absence of a stonecutter prevented the
door jambs to be reconstructed and this
did not permit the adjoining sections of
walls to be properly restored. Hence, the
final visual effect of the reconstruction is
not yet entirely satisfactory. This work
will hopefully be done in the coming sea-
son.

The same jointing and protection
against further deterioration was carried
out as described in the case of house H9.
Originally, there had been only one
column in the eastern portico of the court-
yard in house H9A. The second column
attached to the northwestern wall had
a channel cut inside the drums and served
as a rainwater drain pipe leading to a cis-
tern situated under the floor of the court-
yard. The base of this column is in place,
but only part of a drum and the capital
remain of the rest of it. The column was
not reconstructed on purpose in order to


Fig. 3. General view of House 9a after revalorization
(Drawing Polish-Egyptian Preservation Mission: R. Czerner)

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