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DOI Artikel:Daszewski, Wiktor Andrzej; Majcherek, Grzegorz; el-Wakil, Abdel Latif; Zych, Iwona: Note on an archaeological site near el Dab'a: on the Northwestern coast of Egypt
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EL DABrA ENVIRONS
EGYPT
NOTE ON AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE
NEAR EL DABfA
ON THE NORTHWESTERN COAST OF EGYPT
Wiktor A. Daszewski,
Grzegorz Majcherek, Abdel Latif el-Wakil, Iwona Zych
In March 2000, the authors paid a short visit to the area located in the vicinity of el Dab ca,
actually one kilometer east of the village of el Gamayma and 1.5 km north of the village of
Zawiet el Ahuan, in order to compare the underground tombs excavated hitherto by a Polish
mission in Marina el-Alameinwith the rock-hewn sepulchers found in the limestone ridge
extending latitudinally a few hundred meters away from the sea, north of the cultivated
fields of the two villages. Some of these tombs, used as shelters by the Bedouins during the
battles of World War II in the area, had been partly cleared of sand a few years ago by an
inspector of the SC A, Mr. Hussein Noureddin.
1) For a description of these tombs, cf. W.A. Daszewski, “La necropole de Marina el-Alamein”, in: Necropoles et Pouvoir.
Actes du colloque 'Theorie de la necropole antique1, Lyon, 21-25 Janvier 1995, ed. S. Marchegay, M-T. Le Dinahet,
J-F. Salles (Lyon 1998), 220-241.
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EGYPT
NOTE ON AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE
NEAR EL DABfA
ON THE NORTHWESTERN COAST OF EGYPT
Wiktor A. Daszewski,
Grzegorz Majcherek, Abdel Latif el-Wakil, Iwona Zych
In March 2000, the authors paid a short visit to the area located in the vicinity of el Dab ca,
actually one kilometer east of the village of el Gamayma and 1.5 km north of the village of
Zawiet el Ahuan, in order to compare the underground tombs excavated hitherto by a Polish
mission in Marina el-Alameinwith the rock-hewn sepulchers found in the limestone ridge
extending latitudinally a few hundred meters away from the sea, north of the cultivated
fields of the two villages. Some of these tombs, used as shelters by the Bedouins during the
battles of World War II in the area, had been partly cleared of sand a few years ago by an
inspector of the SC A, Mr. Hussein Noureddin.
1) For a description of these tombs, cf. W.A. Daszewski, “La necropole de Marina el-Alamein”, in: Necropoles et Pouvoir.
Actes du colloque 'Theorie de la necropole antique1, Lyon, 21-25 Janvier 1995, ed. S. Marchegay, M-T. Le Dinahet,
J-F. Salles (Lyon 1998), 220-241.
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