Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (11.1999(2000))

MARINA EL-ALAMEIN

loculi inside and two steps on top forming
a sort of square pedestal for a monumental
decorative column.
The tomb thus belongs to the category
of "pillar" or "column" tombs that is well
known from the necropolis in Marina as
testified by T 1; T IB, T 1J, T 1K2) etc.
Only the lower part, that is, the box with
two loculi has survived down to our times,
the decorative superstructure having been
dismantled (or destroyed), with the
exception of a few identifiable fragments,
when the neighboring hypogeum T 16

was being constructed.3) At a later date,
but prior to the construction of T 16, two
additional loculi were added to the origi-
nal tomb, one on either side, on the south
and north of the tomb. Such extending of
the initial structure appears to have been
much in favor on the necropolis in Marina
as testified by T 12A and T ID, for instanceA
The original structure of T 25 measured:
2.30 m in length (N-S), 2.27 m in width
(E-W), 1.35 m in height. The diameter of
the crowning column was c. 0.60 m. Of
the two additional loculi the northern one


Fig. 4. Tomb 25. Plan and cross-sections
(Drawing T. Kaczor)


Fig. 5. Tomb 25. View from the southeast
(Photo W. A. Daszewski)

2> Cf. W. A. Daszewski et al., MDAIK 46 (1990), 24-27, figs. 7, 8; also id., PAM III, Reports 1991 (1992), fig. 4; id.,
PAM VI, Reports 1994 (1995), fig. 2.
3) W. A. Daszewski, PAM IX, Reports 1997 (1998), 61-67.
4) W. A. Daszewski, MDAIK46, op. cit., p. 29; also id., PAM IV, Reports 1992 (1993), 27-28; id., PAM VI, Reports 1994
(1995), 31-33.

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