DOI issue:
Egypt
DOI article:Godlewski, Włodzimierz: Naqlun: excavations, 2001
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41369#0168
NAQLUN
EGYPT
other stele represents a type that was
popular in Naqlun, that is, the facade of an
aedicula with crosses between the
columns.^
Room AA.30.3 is a small rectangular
room (2.85 by 3.12 m), accessible from the
hall to the west through an entrance,
101 cm wide, in the north corner. The
threshold was reinforced on the inside and
outside with small wooden beams, 10 cm
thick, inserted into the jambs on either
side; its level was raised 77 cm with regard
to the foundation level of the wall,
indicating that access could have been only
by non-existent steps, leading up from
room AA.30.2 and down from the upper
level. Sometime during the occupation of
building AA.30, this entrance was blocked
with big bricks. Hence, the fire that
consumed the neighboring rooms left no
trace on the walls here. The northern wall,
the face of which was recessed some 15 cm
in comparison to the same wall in room
AA.30.2, also has a different bond in the
upper parts: alternate courses of stretchers
and headers, the stretchers being ol thick
bricks and the headers of smaller bricks.
The interior had not been plastered.
A small niche occupied the middle of the
south wall, about 1.5 m above the floor. It
was 52 cm wide and 28 cm deep, rising to
a surviving height of 45 cm. Planks
covered it on top and its interior was
smeared with a layer of mud.
Practically the entire length of the
southern wall was taken up by a platform
2.10 m long, from 85 to 91 cm wide and
100 cm high. The outer walls were made of
mudbrick, the core filled with an earth fill.
In time the bench was made longer to fit
the entire length of the wall, while
a similar, but less well-made structure was
constructed in the southeastern corner
(same height, width up to 106 cm) by the
east wall. The clay floor in this room was
not very well tamped.
At a certain stage much effort was put
into blocking the entrance to this room,
leaving it to be accessed solely from the
east, through a potential new doorway.
Unfortunately, the poor condition of the
wall in this area precludes sound
identification.
ARCHITECTURE NORTH
OF BUILDING AA.30
To the northeast of building AA.30.1-3
a mausoleum (AA.20.1) was found,
encompassing two tombs with super-
structures, T. 50 and T. 133. The structure
measured 3-20 by 3.50 m and was built
after the fire, on top of the northeastern
part of the destroyed building AA.30.1-3
and using the red-brick north wall of
AA.30.3. The south wall, constructed of
mud brick in courses of alternately
horizontal and vertical stretchers, was
founded on a layer of burning; it is
preserved to a height of 90 cm in the
southern end.
Room AA.20.2 is situated to the west
of locus AA.10.3 and by the northwestern
part of Building AA.30.1-3; it measured
4.57 by 3.18 cm. Initially, it was not
connected in any way with Building
AA.30. This status changed at a later stage
when an entrance was pierced through the
wall in the northwestern corner of room
AA.30.3. This space is believed to be
a kind of small courtyard.
The walls here are hardly homogeneous.
The north wall was founded directly on
unleveled bedrock and most likely was
connected with a building standing to the
3) Godlewski, PAM XII, op.cit., 152, fig. 3; A. tajtar, “Two Greek inscriptions from Deir el Naqlun’', Nubica III.I (1994),
265-274.
166
EGYPT
other stele represents a type that was
popular in Naqlun, that is, the facade of an
aedicula with crosses between the
columns.^
Room AA.30.3 is a small rectangular
room (2.85 by 3.12 m), accessible from the
hall to the west through an entrance,
101 cm wide, in the north corner. The
threshold was reinforced on the inside and
outside with small wooden beams, 10 cm
thick, inserted into the jambs on either
side; its level was raised 77 cm with regard
to the foundation level of the wall,
indicating that access could have been only
by non-existent steps, leading up from
room AA.30.2 and down from the upper
level. Sometime during the occupation of
building AA.30, this entrance was blocked
with big bricks. Hence, the fire that
consumed the neighboring rooms left no
trace on the walls here. The northern wall,
the face of which was recessed some 15 cm
in comparison to the same wall in room
AA.30.2, also has a different bond in the
upper parts: alternate courses of stretchers
and headers, the stretchers being ol thick
bricks and the headers of smaller bricks.
The interior had not been plastered.
A small niche occupied the middle of the
south wall, about 1.5 m above the floor. It
was 52 cm wide and 28 cm deep, rising to
a surviving height of 45 cm. Planks
covered it on top and its interior was
smeared with a layer of mud.
Practically the entire length of the
southern wall was taken up by a platform
2.10 m long, from 85 to 91 cm wide and
100 cm high. The outer walls were made of
mudbrick, the core filled with an earth fill.
In time the bench was made longer to fit
the entire length of the wall, while
a similar, but less well-made structure was
constructed in the southeastern corner
(same height, width up to 106 cm) by the
east wall. The clay floor in this room was
not very well tamped.
At a certain stage much effort was put
into blocking the entrance to this room,
leaving it to be accessed solely from the
east, through a potential new doorway.
Unfortunately, the poor condition of the
wall in this area precludes sound
identification.
ARCHITECTURE NORTH
OF BUILDING AA.30
To the northeast of building AA.30.1-3
a mausoleum (AA.20.1) was found,
encompassing two tombs with super-
structures, T. 50 and T. 133. The structure
measured 3-20 by 3.50 m and was built
after the fire, on top of the northeastern
part of the destroyed building AA.30.1-3
and using the red-brick north wall of
AA.30.3. The south wall, constructed of
mud brick in courses of alternately
horizontal and vertical stretchers, was
founded on a layer of burning; it is
preserved to a height of 90 cm in the
southern end.
Room AA.20.2 is situated to the west
of locus AA.10.3 and by the northwestern
part of Building AA.30.1-3; it measured
4.57 by 3.18 cm. Initially, it was not
connected in any way with Building
AA.30. This status changed at a later stage
when an entrance was pierced through the
wall in the northwestern corner of room
AA.30.3. This space is believed to be
a kind of small courtyard.
The walls here are hardly homogeneous.
The north wall was founded directly on
unleveled bedrock and most likely was
connected with a building standing to the
3) Godlewski, PAM XII, op.cit., 152, fig. 3; A. tajtar, “Two Greek inscriptions from Deir el Naqlun’', Nubica III.I (1994),
265-274.
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