Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (11.1999(2000))

OLD DONGOLA

SUDAN

OLD DONGOLA
DOCUMENTATION WORK IN THE
MONASTERY, 1999
Stefan Jakobielski

While no excavations were planned in the Monastery on Kom H in 1999, a study season
was organized, to continue documentation work in the Northwestern Annex, from January
9 to January 20, 1999■
Advantage was taken of this opportunity to check on the effectiveness of measures taken
during the previous season to protect the surviving paintings, this in view of the disastrous
rainfall and flooding that had occurred in Dongola in the summer of 1998.

The team comprised Dr. Stefan Jakobielski, director; Dr. Malgorzata Martens-Czarnecka, archaeologist, responsible for
documenting the murals; and Mr. Tomasz Jakobielski, photographer. Sd. Mustafa Ahmed El-Sherif, staff member of the
National Museum Conservation Laboratories, represented the NCAM of Sudan. The work was financed by the Research
Center for Mediterranean Archaeology of the Polish Academy of Sciences with a contribution from the Bank Rozwoju
Eksportu SA (BRE), Warsaw.
SDRS expedition members Ms. Paulina Terendy and Ms Malgorzata Sladkowska assisted in making facsimiles of the
graffiti.

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