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DOI article:Waliszewski, Tomasz: Chhim: explorations, 1998
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CHHIM
LEBANON
CHHIM
EXPLORATIONS, 1998
Tomasz Waliszewski
The third excavation campaign of the Polish-French-Lebanese archaeological expedition was
carried out between June 29 and August 21.J) This season the work was concentrated in
Chhim, a village site some 30 km south of Beirut and 7 km as the crow flies from the
Mediterranean coast. Archaeological work was supplemented with an extensive conservation
and reconstruction program carried out between August 24 and September 21 by specialists
from the Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw.2^
The campaign was devoted to completing the exploration of the Byzantine basilica B,
uncovering the narthex and atrium, clearing the Roman-Byzantine habitation and domes-
tic complex F, excavating the structures underlying the Roman temple C and exploring and
recording two oil presses E.II and E.III (Fig. 1 ).3)
The expedition was directed by Tomasz Waliszewski, assisted by Renata Tarazi representing the Direction Generale
des Antiquites, and Levon Nordiguian from the Institut Frangais d'Archeologie du Proche-Orient. The staff included: Jacek
Konik, Ewa Chrzanowska, archaeologists; Abdallah Alaeddine, ceramologist, in charge of work in Temple C; Jarosiaw
Gozdalik, architect; Marek Puszkarski, Anna Nowicka, documentalists; Tomasz Szmagier, photographer; Jakub Batdyga,
Olga Bazelak, Anna Dudzik, Dobrochna Janik, Marcin Kisielewicz, Maciej Rys, students of archaeology from Warsaw
University and the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw; Katarzyna Dziwinska, student of conservation from the Fine
Arts Academy in Warsaw; Robert Sozanski, Arabic studies student from Jagiellonian University in Cracow; Michel Helou,
Ibrahim Noureddine, students of the Universite Libanaise in Beirut.
The work of the expedition could not have proceeded so successfully without the kind and efficient support of the follow-
ing institutions: Direction Generale des Antiquites, the Institut Frangais d'Archeologie du Proche-Orient and Polish Center
of Archaeology of Warsaw University, in the persons of their respective heads: Dr. Camille Asmar, Prof. Jean-Marie Dentzer
and Prof. Michal Gawlikowski, as well as the enormous effort of Mrs. Renata Tarazi of the DGA in organizing the expedi-
tion. The State Committee for Scientific Research of the Polish Republic has kindly provided funds to process the results.
2) Mosaic conservation was charged to a team of specialists from the Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw headed by Krzysztof
Chmielewski and assisted by Andrzej Karolczak; the group included students Wioletta Tkaczyk, Aleksandra Trochimowicz,
Mariusz Makowiecki, Bazyli Piatkowski; The north wall of basilica B was restored by Pawel Jgdrzejczyk and Bartosz
Markowski.
For the results of previous campaigns, see PAM VIII, Reports 1996 (1997), pp. 147-156; PAM IX, Reports 1997 (1998),
pp.139-152.
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LEBANON
CHHIM
EXPLORATIONS, 1998
Tomasz Waliszewski
The third excavation campaign of the Polish-French-Lebanese archaeological expedition was
carried out between June 29 and August 21.J) This season the work was concentrated in
Chhim, a village site some 30 km south of Beirut and 7 km as the crow flies from the
Mediterranean coast. Archaeological work was supplemented with an extensive conservation
and reconstruction program carried out between August 24 and September 21 by specialists
from the Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw.2^
The campaign was devoted to completing the exploration of the Byzantine basilica B,
uncovering the narthex and atrium, clearing the Roman-Byzantine habitation and domes-
tic complex F, excavating the structures underlying the Roman temple C and exploring and
recording two oil presses E.II and E.III (Fig. 1 ).3)
The expedition was directed by Tomasz Waliszewski, assisted by Renata Tarazi representing the Direction Generale
des Antiquites, and Levon Nordiguian from the Institut Frangais d'Archeologie du Proche-Orient. The staff included: Jacek
Konik, Ewa Chrzanowska, archaeologists; Abdallah Alaeddine, ceramologist, in charge of work in Temple C; Jarosiaw
Gozdalik, architect; Marek Puszkarski, Anna Nowicka, documentalists; Tomasz Szmagier, photographer; Jakub Batdyga,
Olga Bazelak, Anna Dudzik, Dobrochna Janik, Marcin Kisielewicz, Maciej Rys, students of archaeology from Warsaw
University and the Academy of Catholic Theology in Warsaw; Katarzyna Dziwinska, student of conservation from the Fine
Arts Academy in Warsaw; Robert Sozanski, Arabic studies student from Jagiellonian University in Cracow; Michel Helou,
Ibrahim Noureddine, students of the Universite Libanaise in Beirut.
The work of the expedition could not have proceeded so successfully without the kind and efficient support of the follow-
ing institutions: Direction Generale des Antiquites, the Institut Frangais d'Archeologie du Proche-Orient and Polish Center
of Archaeology of Warsaw University, in the persons of their respective heads: Dr. Camille Asmar, Prof. Jean-Marie Dentzer
and Prof. Michal Gawlikowski, as well as the enormous effort of Mrs. Renata Tarazi of the DGA in organizing the expedi-
tion. The State Committee for Scientific Research of the Polish Republic has kindly provided funds to process the results.
2) Mosaic conservation was charged to a team of specialists from the Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw headed by Krzysztof
Chmielewski and assisted by Andrzej Karolczak; the group included students Wioletta Tkaczyk, Aleksandra Trochimowicz,
Mariusz Makowiecki, Bazyli Piatkowski; The north wall of basilica B was restored by Pawel Jgdrzejczyk and Bartosz
Markowski.
For the results of previous campaigns, see PAM VIII, Reports 1996 (1997), pp. 147-156; PAM IX, Reports 1997 (1998),
pp.139-152.
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