DOI issue:
Egypt
DOI article:Godlewski, Włodzimierz: Naqlun: excavations, 1998
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41273#0119
NAQLUN
EGYPT
the presence of structures on a layer of rub-
bish outside the fence wall was recorded.
Three walls were found to join wall E at
right angles; they are doubtless later. The
entire architecture in this area was com-
pletely destroyed, obviously burned, leav-
ing considerable quantities of ashes. The
golden coin found in the ashes is a denar-
ius of al-Mutamid and suggests a date for
the destruction in the end of the 9th cent.
The area to the south of wall E was heavily
filled with debris.
Fig. 3. Qulla. (Nd. 98.095)
(Photo W. Godlewski)
An extensive architectural complex
was erected on the ruins of earlier struc-
tures; it developed along an E-W axis to
the north of the still existing tower A. The
building was identified only in its south-
eastern part and its five rooms served dif-
ferent purposes. The biggest eastern room
was inhabited and it is here that Girga's
archive was discovered in a big storage jar
set into the floor in the southeastern cor-
ner at walking level. Most of the docu-
ments from the archive are dated to the
late 10th and early 11th cent., so it is
highly probable that the entire structure
was built in the 11th cent.
The western part of the structure was
more domestic than anything else in
nature. In one of the rooms, a small cellar
was discovered, measuring 160 x 90 cm; in
another unit nearby animals, presumably
donkeys, were kept.
On the south side of the building, in
the passage between the structure and
Tower A, as well as west of the tower five
tombs were discovered. They were
equipped with finely plastered rectangular
stepped superstructures with a semicircu-
lar finish on top. The tombs respect the
position of the building containing Girgi's
archive and that of the tower which had
served as a church in this time. There is,
however, no evidence to date the tomb
superstructures. While undoubtedly earli-
er than the 19th cent, cemetery situated in
this part of the kom, they can be dated
most probably to the latest period in the
operation of the Nekloni monastery, that
is, the 13/14th cent.
A vast 19th cent, cemetery had been
recorded in the area of the ruined and
abandoned monastery already in 1986 (Site
A). The deceased were buried in coffins
made of pieces of wood or palm leaf
branches with no superstructure to mark
the spot.
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EGYPT
the presence of structures on a layer of rub-
bish outside the fence wall was recorded.
Three walls were found to join wall E at
right angles; they are doubtless later. The
entire architecture in this area was com-
pletely destroyed, obviously burned, leav-
ing considerable quantities of ashes. The
golden coin found in the ashes is a denar-
ius of al-Mutamid and suggests a date for
the destruction in the end of the 9th cent.
The area to the south of wall E was heavily
filled with debris.
Fig. 3. Qulla. (Nd. 98.095)
(Photo W. Godlewski)
An extensive architectural complex
was erected on the ruins of earlier struc-
tures; it developed along an E-W axis to
the north of the still existing tower A. The
building was identified only in its south-
eastern part and its five rooms served dif-
ferent purposes. The biggest eastern room
was inhabited and it is here that Girga's
archive was discovered in a big storage jar
set into the floor in the southeastern cor-
ner at walking level. Most of the docu-
ments from the archive are dated to the
late 10th and early 11th cent., so it is
highly probable that the entire structure
was built in the 11th cent.
The western part of the structure was
more domestic than anything else in
nature. In one of the rooms, a small cellar
was discovered, measuring 160 x 90 cm; in
another unit nearby animals, presumably
donkeys, were kept.
On the south side of the building, in
the passage between the structure and
Tower A, as well as west of the tower five
tombs were discovered. They were
equipped with finely plastered rectangular
stepped superstructures with a semicircu-
lar finish on top. The tombs respect the
position of the building containing Girgi's
archive and that of the tower which had
served as a church in this time. There is,
however, no evidence to date the tomb
superstructures. While undoubtedly earli-
er than the 19th cent, cemetery situated in
this part of the kom, they can be dated
most probably to the latest period in the
operation of the Nekloni monastery, that
is, the 13/14th cent.
A vast 19th cent, cemetery had been
recorded in the area of the ruined and
abandoned monastery already in 1986 (Site
A). The deceased were buried in coffins
made of pieces of wood or palm leaf
branches with no superstructure to mark
the spot.
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