Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (14.2002(2003))

MAREA

EGYPT

MAREA
SEASON 2002
Hanna Szymanska, Krzysztof Babraj

The third season of excavations at Marea, which lasted from August 10 until October 2,
2002, was possible thanks to a grant from the State Committee for Scientific Research of the
Republic of Poland (no. H01H 042 21) and resources provided by the Polish Center of
Archaeology of Warsaw University and private sponsors.0
The main objective of this year's campaign was to locate the well from which water had
been supplied to the Byzantine bath of the 6th through early 8th century, discovered during
the two previous campaigns. Work in the bath itself was also completed.
1) The team was directed by Dr. Hanna Szymanska and comprised, Mr. Krzysztof Babraj (Deputy Director), Ms Joanna
Szczepkowska and Ms Renata Kucharczyk, archaeologists; Mr. Grzegorz Kieferling, conservator and archaeologist;
Dr. Grzegorz Majcherek, ceramologist; Ms Daria Tarara, architect; Ms Joanna Babraj, draftsperson; Prof. Dr. Elzbieta
Mycielska-Dowgiatto and Dr. Barbara Woronko, geologists-sedimentologists; and Mr. Tomasz Kalarus, photographer. The
Supreme Council of Antiquities was represented by Mr. Osama S. Katafany, General Director of the Museum in Marina el-
Alamein.
We would like to express our deepest gratitude to Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of
Antiquities, and Dr. Mohammed Maqsud, General Director of the SCA Egyptian Antiquities Sector, for their contribution
to the success of the expedition. We would have hardly achieved as much as we have without the friendly assistance of
Dr. Ahmed Abd El Fattah, General Director of Alexandrian Antiquities.

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