Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (11.1999(2000))

MARINA EL-ALAMEIN

EGYPT

MARINA EL-ALAMEIN
SEASON 1999
Wiktor Andrzej Daszewski

With a view to a better understanding of the town plan and the location of the tombs in the
southwestern cemetery, the team carried out in March a campaign consisting essentially of
geophysical prospect ion of the area in question. One test trench was opened to verify the pre-
liminary results of the geophysical research.

11 The campaign, sponsored as usual by the Polish Center of Archaeology of Warsaw University, was staffed by
Prof. Dr. Wiktor Andrzej Daszewski, head of the expedition; Mr. Tomasz Herbich, archaeologist (geophysical research using
the magnetic method); Mr. Harald von der Osten, geophysicist of the Landesdenkmalamt in Stuttgart (DE System meas-
urements); Mr. Mikolaj Budzanowski, archaeologist; Ms Teresa Kaczor, architect. The Supreme Council of Antiquities was
represented by Mr. Abdel Latif el-Wakil, Director of the Marina archaeological site. We would like to express our sincere
thanks to him for his considerate help and day-to-day assistance throughout the course of our work. The Mission also wish-
es to express its gratitude to Prof. Dr. Gaballa Ali Gaballa. Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, and
Mr. Abdel Salam Bakr, for their encouragement and unfailing interest in our researches. Last but not least, our thanks are
due to Prof. Dr. Dieter Planck, Director of the Landesdenkmalamt Baden-Wiirttemberg in Stuttgart for permission to use
the DE System equipment and to Mr. Harald von der Osten for finding the time to come to Marina to carry out the research
during his leave.

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