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Egypt
DOI Artikel:Daszewski, Wiktor Andrzej: Marina el-Alamein: season 1999
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41274#0048
MARINA EL-ALAMEIN
EGYPT
OTHER INVESTIGATIONS
Another trench was opened at a distance of
13 m to the west of the aboveground mau-
soleum of T 16 in order to check for yet
another "pillar" tomb in the area. A wall
was discovered, 0.78-0.86 m thick, made
of big; flat but irregular chips of limestone
bonded in a mud mortar. The L-shaped
wall runs from S to N for a distance of
3.70 m, gently curving westwards to con-
tinue for another 1.90 m. No accompany-
ing occupation level was identified. It is
not clear what kind of structure this wall
had belonged to. Although located inside
the necropolis area, it does not seem to form
part of any funerary structure whatsoever.
Additional investigations were carried
out in T 14.6) The walls of the funerary
chamber were examined for tracing lines
drawn in red marking the position of loculi,
including ones to be cut. These were regis-
tered. The lines had been made by means
of a string dipped in red paint stretched
across the whole length of the wall and
then pressed to the wall surface. They mark
off three rows of loculi, each niche measur-
ing 0.87 m in width and 0.93 m high. The
curtain walls between neighboring loculi
are 18.5 or 20 cm thick. This arrangement
was repeated on all three sides of the cham-
ber with the exception of the northern
entrance wall. However, the highest row of
loculi had never been completed except for
one loculus (no. 7) in the southwestern cor-
ner of the chamber.
Several loculi were provided with sock-
ets for fixing limestone slabs to close the
entrance. One loculus (no. 10) in the south
wall had five peg holes above the upper
edge, apparently serving to fix a curtain.7)
Another loculus here (no. 12) had some
short narrow indentations suggesting that
a closing device of wood had been used.
6) Daszewski, PAM VIII, Reports 1996 (1997), 75-79; also id.; PAM IX, Reports 1997 (1998), 67.
7) This kind of closing of the loculi has already been observed in other hypogea in Marina, in T 7, for example.
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EGYPT
OTHER INVESTIGATIONS
Another trench was opened at a distance of
13 m to the west of the aboveground mau-
soleum of T 16 in order to check for yet
another "pillar" tomb in the area. A wall
was discovered, 0.78-0.86 m thick, made
of big; flat but irregular chips of limestone
bonded in a mud mortar. The L-shaped
wall runs from S to N for a distance of
3.70 m, gently curving westwards to con-
tinue for another 1.90 m. No accompany-
ing occupation level was identified. It is
not clear what kind of structure this wall
had belonged to. Although located inside
the necropolis area, it does not seem to form
part of any funerary structure whatsoever.
Additional investigations were carried
out in T 14.6) The walls of the funerary
chamber were examined for tracing lines
drawn in red marking the position of loculi,
including ones to be cut. These were regis-
tered. The lines had been made by means
of a string dipped in red paint stretched
across the whole length of the wall and
then pressed to the wall surface. They mark
off three rows of loculi, each niche measur-
ing 0.87 m in width and 0.93 m high. The
curtain walls between neighboring loculi
are 18.5 or 20 cm thick. This arrangement
was repeated on all three sides of the cham-
ber with the exception of the northern
entrance wall. However, the highest row of
loculi had never been completed except for
one loculus (no. 7) in the southwestern cor-
ner of the chamber.
Several loculi were provided with sock-
ets for fixing limestone slabs to close the
entrance. One loculus (no. 10) in the south
wall had five peg holes above the upper
edge, apparently serving to fix a curtain.7)
Another loculus here (no. 12) had some
short narrow indentations suggesting that
a closing device of wood had been used.
6) Daszewski, PAM VIII, Reports 1996 (1997), 75-79; also id.; PAM IX, Reports 1997 (1998), 67.
7) This kind of closing of the loculi has already been observed in other hypogea in Marina, in T 7, for example.
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