DOI issue:
Egypt
DOI article:Daszewski, Wiktor Andrzej: Marina el-Alamein: excavation report 2002
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41370#0057
MARINA EL-ALAMEIN
EGYPT
stone leveling fill. From floor to top of
molding, the table was 0.95 m high. Yet
another rectangular table with carved legs
(0.66 m high and 0.14 m wide) and a base
(0.14 m wide) was found in the south-
western corner of the chamber. Its top,
probably of the same kind as the one from
the south wall, was missing.
Slabs that had once closed some of the
loculi were found broken. One of these
slabs (0.33 m high and 0.23 m wide) bears
a fairly poor relief decoration in the form of
a bird, probably a Horus falcon in frontal
view (0.37 m high and 0.12 m wide)
(Fig. 9). A large terracotta sarcophagus of
tubular shape, larger in the middle and
narrower at both ends, lay on the ground
along the western wall (Fig. 10). It
measured 1.83 m long and its diameters
were: 0.45 m at the most in the center,
0.43 m at the top and 0.29 m at the bottom
end. It was provided with a rectangular lid,
cut from the body of the sarcophagus before
Fig. 8. Tomb 29. Rectangular offering table
(Drawing M. Puszkarski after
I. Zych)
firing, fitted into an opening 0.99 m long
and 0.34 m wide, through which the corpse
was introduced. The sarcophagus was not
decorated apart from three protruding
ribbed loops (0.025-0.030 m wide), one at
the wide end, two in the center. The upper,
wider end was closed with a round knobbed
lid.
Two horned altars made of limestone
were found near the southern wall. The first
was square (H. 0.29 m; 0.16 m at the bot-
tom; 0.15 m at the top), the second one
with a rounded column supported a square
top (H. 0.29 m).
Small finds were scarce, being limited
to a terracotta oil lamp of Late Hellenistic/
Early Roman type, well known from
Alexandria, probably of the 1st century
AD. It was found in the SE corner on the
floor of the chamber. In the court, a frag-
ment of CS plate, form 11, of the late 1st
century AD was uncovered on floor level,
while an amphora, most likely of Cretan
Fig. 9. Tomb 29- Relief of Horus falcon (?) on
the closing slab of a loculus (Drawing
M. Puszkarski after I. Zych)
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EGYPT
stone leveling fill. From floor to top of
molding, the table was 0.95 m high. Yet
another rectangular table with carved legs
(0.66 m high and 0.14 m wide) and a base
(0.14 m wide) was found in the south-
western corner of the chamber. Its top,
probably of the same kind as the one from
the south wall, was missing.
Slabs that had once closed some of the
loculi were found broken. One of these
slabs (0.33 m high and 0.23 m wide) bears
a fairly poor relief decoration in the form of
a bird, probably a Horus falcon in frontal
view (0.37 m high and 0.12 m wide)
(Fig. 9). A large terracotta sarcophagus of
tubular shape, larger in the middle and
narrower at both ends, lay on the ground
along the western wall (Fig. 10). It
measured 1.83 m long and its diameters
were: 0.45 m at the most in the center,
0.43 m at the top and 0.29 m at the bottom
end. It was provided with a rectangular lid,
cut from the body of the sarcophagus before
Fig. 8. Tomb 29. Rectangular offering table
(Drawing M. Puszkarski after
I. Zych)
firing, fitted into an opening 0.99 m long
and 0.34 m wide, through which the corpse
was introduced. The sarcophagus was not
decorated apart from three protruding
ribbed loops (0.025-0.030 m wide), one at
the wide end, two in the center. The upper,
wider end was closed with a round knobbed
lid.
Two horned altars made of limestone
were found near the southern wall. The first
was square (H. 0.29 m; 0.16 m at the bot-
tom; 0.15 m at the top), the second one
with a rounded column supported a square
top (H. 0.29 m).
Small finds were scarce, being limited
to a terracotta oil lamp of Late Hellenistic/
Early Roman type, well known from
Alexandria, probably of the 1st century
AD. It was found in the SE corner on the
floor of the chamber. In the court, a frag-
ment of CS plate, form 11, of the late 1st
century AD was uncovered on floor level,
while an amphora, most likely of Cretan
Fig. 9. Tomb 29- Relief of Horus falcon (?) on
the closing slab of a loculus (Drawing
M. Puszkarski after I. Zych)
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