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DOI article:Godlewski, Włodzimierz: Naqlun: excavations, 1998
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NAQLUN
EGYPT
NAQLUN
EXCAVATIONS, 1998
Wtodzimierz Godlewski
The 1998 season of excavations conducted by an expedition from the Polish Center of
Archaeology of Warsaw University lasted from September 11 until October 22.0
The excavations^ were carried out only on the kom extending behind the modern
monastery of Deir el-Malak Gabriel, on three sites in different parts of the ancient monas-
tic complex:
1. Site D, in the northern part of the monastery, where the straggling monastic compound
continued to be explored;
2. Site E, in the central part of the kom, where the abandoned trenches under the monastery
enclosure pillars dug in 1997 were enlarged;
3. Site F, in the southeastern part of the kom, where a small trench was dug to verify the
results of geophysical surveying in 1997.
Additional work was also carried out inside the Church of the Archangel Gabriel in
order to verify and complete the documentation, and in the expedition stores on particular
objects, especially the Coptic and Arabic texts and the textile fragments and glass vessels.
Also the Arabic and Byzantine coins have been studied by A'Ij Corinne Morisot and
Dr. Barbara Eichocka and the basketry by Dr. Willemina Z. Wendrich.
L) The mission was directed by Prof. Dr. Wlodzimierz Godlewski and included: Dr. Jacques van der Vliet, coptologist
(University of Leiden); Misses. Magda Zurek, Maria Mossakowska, archaeologists; Mr. Christian Gaubert, arabist (IFAO);
Ms. Barbara Czaja, Messrs. Radostaw Gfowacki, Artur Obiuski, students of archaeology. The Supreme Council of
Antiquities was represented by Mr. Ibrahim Ragab.
Thanks to the assistance of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, both in Cairo and in Fayum, the fieldwork could proceed
smoothly and effectively. The Mission is also grateful to the monks from the monastery of the Archangel Gabriel in Naqlun
for their lasting hospitality and assistance on many occasions.
2) W. Godlewski, Deir el Naqlun. Topography and tentative history, Archeologia e papiri nel Fayyum (Siracusa 1997),
pp. 123-145. W. Godlewski, PAM IX, Reports 1997 (1998), pp. 77-86; Ch. Gaubert, Remarques preliminaires sur les
archives d'epoque fatimide d'une famille copte, PAM IX, Reports 1997 (1998), pp. 87-89-
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EGYPT
NAQLUN
EXCAVATIONS, 1998
Wtodzimierz Godlewski
The 1998 season of excavations conducted by an expedition from the Polish Center of
Archaeology of Warsaw University lasted from September 11 until October 22.0
The excavations^ were carried out only on the kom extending behind the modern
monastery of Deir el-Malak Gabriel, on three sites in different parts of the ancient monas-
tic complex:
1. Site D, in the northern part of the monastery, where the straggling monastic compound
continued to be explored;
2. Site E, in the central part of the kom, where the abandoned trenches under the monastery
enclosure pillars dug in 1997 were enlarged;
3. Site F, in the southeastern part of the kom, where a small trench was dug to verify the
results of geophysical surveying in 1997.
Additional work was also carried out inside the Church of the Archangel Gabriel in
order to verify and complete the documentation, and in the expedition stores on particular
objects, especially the Coptic and Arabic texts and the textile fragments and glass vessels.
Also the Arabic and Byzantine coins have been studied by A'Ij Corinne Morisot and
Dr. Barbara Eichocka and the basketry by Dr. Willemina Z. Wendrich.
L) The mission was directed by Prof. Dr. Wlodzimierz Godlewski and included: Dr. Jacques van der Vliet, coptologist
(University of Leiden); Misses. Magda Zurek, Maria Mossakowska, archaeologists; Mr. Christian Gaubert, arabist (IFAO);
Ms. Barbara Czaja, Messrs. Radostaw Gfowacki, Artur Obiuski, students of archaeology. The Supreme Council of
Antiquities was represented by Mr. Ibrahim Ragab.
Thanks to the assistance of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, both in Cairo and in Fayum, the fieldwork could proceed
smoothly and effectively. The Mission is also grateful to the monks from the monastery of the Archangel Gabriel in Naqlun
for their lasting hospitality and assistance on many occasions.
2) W. Godlewski, Deir el Naqlun. Topography and tentative history, Archeologia e papiri nel Fayyum (Siracusa 1997),
pp. 123-145. W. Godlewski, PAM IX, Reports 1997 (1998), pp. 77-86; Ch. Gaubert, Remarques preliminaires sur les
archives d'epoque fatimide d'une famille copte, PAM IX, Reports 1997 (1998), pp. 87-89-
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