Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (11.1999(2000))

OLD DONGOLA

SUDAN

OLD DONGOLA
Kom A, 1999

Wiodzimierz Godlewski

Excavations were carried out from January 26 until March 5, 1999, and covered the entire
site on Kom A identified with the oldest architecture in the Makurian capitald'1 The work
was programmed as a continuation of the 1997 investigations2'1 and included research on the
fortifications of ancient Dongola, as well as excavations in the northwestern corner of the
town area, where the House of the Ecclesiastics (A. 106) is being cleared.

2> The Mission was headed by Prof. Dr. Wtodzimierz Godlewski and included: Dr. Adam Lajtar, archaeologist and
epigraphist; Mr. Zbigniew Solarewicz, architect; Ms Joanna Kociankowska, Ms Marzena Romaniuk, Mr. Daniel Gazda,
archaeologists; Ms Lidia Badowska and Ms Magdalena Chabowska, students of archaeology from Warsaw University.
The NCAM was represented by Mr. Mustafa Ahmed el-Sherif.
21 W. Godlewski, PAM IX, Reports 1997 (1998), 170-179- See also id., The Earliest Evidence of the Settlement at Old
Dongola, in: Studien zum antiken Sudan, ed. S. Wenig (Wiesbaden 1999), 554-559-

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