Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (11.1999(2000))

ALEXANDRIA

EGYPT

ISLAMIC POTTERY RECORDING PROJECT

In addition to the excavations, extensive
research has been carried out on the
medieval glazed pottery and associate finds
from Kom el-Dikka, this in preparation for

a comprehensive publication of the collec-
tion. The recording work concentrated on
finishing the group of Early Islamic pottery
finds (Omayyad through Fatimid).

SECTOR MX

MOSLEM CEMETERIES
Further progress in the evacuation of soil
and debris deposits from the area of the so-
called Theater Portico enabled us to step
up excavations in this sector. Last year, the
western end of a passage belonging to the
Late Roman Bath (sector CV) had been

explored.2) This season our efforts were
concentrated in sector MX, in an area
measuring some 15 x 20 m and located
further to the south, in the immediate
vicinity of the Theater.
It has been ascertained already that this
area was occupied in the medieval period


Fig. 1. Sector MX. General view of the Upper Necropolis looking west
(Photo W.Jerke)

2> G. Majcherek, PAM X, Reports 1998 (1999), 29-40

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