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DOI Artikel:Godlewski, Włodzimierz: Naqlun: excavations, 1999
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NAQLUN
EGYPT
NAQLUN
EXCAVATIONS, 1999
Wlodzimierz Godlewski
The excavations carried out at Naqlun between September 6 and October 13, 1999, were
a continuation of earlier work on the kom, which extends east of the modern-day monastery
of Deir Malak Gubrail; investigations concentrated on the central part of the kom (sites
A and E) and its northern edge (Site D).r) Concurrently with the explorations, team mem-
bers continued studies of the previously uncovered material, now kept in storage at the site:2}
Christian Gaubert and Michel Mouton, of an archive of notarial Arab documents belong-
ing to Georgi Bifam and his family f> Jacques Van der Vliet, of a set of Coptic texts dis-
covered in 1993-1998 in the ruins of the monastic complex on site D; Iwona Zych, of the
wooden objects, Maria Mossakowska, of the glass, Tomasz Gorecki, of the pottery, and
Barbara Czaja-Szewczak, of the textiles.
The Mission was directed by Prof. Dr. Wlodzimierz Godlewski and included: Prof. Michel Mouton (Sorbonne, Paris),
Mr. Christian Gaubert (IFAO, Cairo), arabists; Dr. Jacques van der Vliet (University of Leiden), coptologist; Dr. Karol
Piasecki, anthropologist; Mrs. Barbara Czaja-Szewczak, Mrs. Maria Mossakowska-Gaubert, Mrs. Iwona Zych,
Mrs. Magdalena Zurek, archaeologists; Mr. Tomasz Gorecki, ceramologist; Mr. Stanislaw Machaia, photographer; Messrs.
Marek Puszkarski and Mariusz Jucha kindly helped out with the documentation.
The Supreme Council of Antiquities was represented by Mr. Ibrahim Ragab.
With the assistance of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, in Cairo as well as in Fayum, the fieldwork progressed
smoothly and efficiently. The Mission is also grateful to the monks from the monastery of the Archangel Gabriel in Naqlun
for their continued hospitality and generous assistance on many occasions.
2> W. Godlewski, PAM X, Reports 1998 (1999), 113-117; id., "Naqlun 1993-1996", in: Agypten und Nubien in spatan-
tiker und Christlicher Zeit, ed. M. Krause (1999), 157-162.
Ch. Gaubert, "Remarques preliminaires sur les archives d'epoque fatimide d'une famille copte", PAM IX, Reports 1998
(1999), 87-89.
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EGYPT
NAQLUN
EXCAVATIONS, 1999
Wlodzimierz Godlewski
The excavations carried out at Naqlun between September 6 and October 13, 1999, were
a continuation of earlier work on the kom, which extends east of the modern-day monastery
of Deir Malak Gubrail; investigations concentrated on the central part of the kom (sites
A and E) and its northern edge (Site D).r) Concurrently with the explorations, team mem-
bers continued studies of the previously uncovered material, now kept in storage at the site:2}
Christian Gaubert and Michel Mouton, of an archive of notarial Arab documents belong-
ing to Georgi Bifam and his family f> Jacques Van der Vliet, of a set of Coptic texts dis-
covered in 1993-1998 in the ruins of the monastic complex on site D; Iwona Zych, of the
wooden objects, Maria Mossakowska, of the glass, Tomasz Gorecki, of the pottery, and
Barbara Czaja-Szewczak, of the textiles.
The Mission was directed by Prof. Dr. Wlodzimierz Godlewski and included: Prof. Michel Mouton (Sorbonne, Paris),
Mr. Christian Gaubert (IFAO, Cairo), arabists; Dr. Jacques van der Vliet (University of Leiden), coptologist; Dr. Karol
Piasecki, anthropologist; Mrs. Barbara Czaja-Szewczak, Mrs. Maria Mossakowska-Gaubert, Mrs. Iwona Zych,
Mrs. Magdalena Zurek, archaeologists; Mr. Tomasz Gorecki, ceramologist; Mr. Stanislaw Machaia, photographer; Messrs.
Marek Puszkarski and Mariusz Jucha kindly helped out with the documentation.
The Supreme Council of Antiquities was represented by Mr. Ibrahim Ragab.
With the assistance of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, in Cairo as well as in Fayum, the fieldwork progressed
smoothly and efficiently. The Mission is also grateful to the monks from the monastery of the Archangel Gabriel in Naqlun
for their continued hospitality and generous assistance on many occasions.
2> W. Godlewski, PAM X, Reports 1998 (1999), 113-117; id., "Naqlun 1993-1996", in: Agypten und Nubien in spatan-
tiker und Christlicher Zeit, ed. M. Krause (1999), 157-162.
Ch. Gaubert, "Remarques preliminaires sur les archives d'epoque fatimide d'une famille copte", PAM IX, Reports 1998
(1999), 87-89.
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