Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (11.1999(2000))

CAIRO

EGYPT

CAIRO
FUNERARY COMPLEX
OF AMIR KEBIR QURQUMAS, 1999
Jerzy J. Kania

The present report covers all of the 1999 season as the team works on a year-round basis.1'1
The work was continued in the various parts of the complex: the Madrasa, Khanqah, Qasr,
Tahuna, and Qubba.

The staff included on the Polish Side: Mr. Jerzy J. Kania, M.Sc. eng., architect-restorer, director (all the year except
August-September); Mr. Wieslaw Kuczewski, civil engineer, Site Chief (January-February, April-June, October-December);
Dr. Maciej G. Witkowski, archaeologist-epigraphist (January-April, December); Mrs. Barbara Wolosz, artist and fine arts
conservator (January-April); Ms. Teresa Kaczor, architect (April-June); Mr. Maciej Boruta, architect (March-April);
Mr. Stanislaw Machala, photographer (October-December); Mr. Mariusz Dybich, technician (auxiliary services, all year).
Volunteering for work with the team were Ms Csila Karsay and Ms Regina Mrowca, conservators (March-April); Ms Grazyna
B^kowska, archaeologist (April), Ms Joanna Szewczyk, Ms Anetta tyzwa, students of archaeology (May-June).
Mr. Christopher Ciuk, archaeologist, Curator of the Islamic Art Department in the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto,
kindly consulted the methodology of pottery, studies on the site. Mr. Rajmund Gazda, specialist in stone conservation, pre-
pared on request a detailed report on the state of the most endangered and eroded stone elements of the complex.
The Supreme Council of Antiquities was represented on the site by Mrs. Fatin Hassan el-Fayeez, archaeologist, Site
Inspector, and Messrs. Nazmy Daoud Attiya, Eng., Site Architect, and Ibrahim Farag Ibrahim, chemist-conservator
(January-May).

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