DOI issue:
Sudan
DOI article:Jakobielski, Stefan: Old Dongola: fieldwork in 2002
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41370#0213
OLD DONGOLA
SUDAN
OLD DONGOLA
FIELDWORK IN 2002
Stefan Jakobielski
In 2002 two campaigns of fieldwork were carried out at the site of the monastery on Kom H
in Old Dongola. During the thirty-fifth season, which lasted from January 12 to February
26, 2002,0 activities were limited to the monastic compound area on Kom H.2> The
successive season, from November 21, 2002, until January 22, 2003,1 2 3) 4 concentrated on
essential conservation work inside the uncovered parts of the monastic compound. ^
1) The Mission in the 35th season comprised Dr. Stefan Jakobielski, Director; Dr. Malgorzata Martens-Czarnecka,
archaeologist; Mr. Wojciech Chmiel, restorer; Dr. Teresa Kelm-Krauze, architect; Mr. Krzysztof Pluskota, archaeologist,
pottery specialist; Mr. Jaroslaw Swigcicki and Mr. Daniel Gazda, archaeologists; Syd. Haidar Hamid Mukhtar, restorer
(Head of the Conservation Department at the Sudan National Museum, acting as Inspector of Antiquities); Ms Anna
Palczynska and Ms Aleksandra Nowicka, students of archaeology, Poznan University. Mrs. Elzbieta Jakobielska assisted in
the documentation while visiting the Mission in a private capacity.
2) Funds were provided by the Polish Center of Archaeology of Warsaw University with some financial assistance from
the Research Center of Mediterranean Archaeology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Kinomax Enterprises (Poland) Ltd.
kindly provided some photographic equipment for the use of the expedition this season.
3) The Mission in the 36th season comprised Dr. Stefan Jakobielski, Director; Dr. Marcin Wiewiora, archaeologist-
architect; Mrs. Gabriela Chmiel, restorer; Messrs. Jaroslaw Swigcicki and Daniel Gazda, archaeologists; Ms Marta Gauza,
archaeozoologist; Syd. Haidar Hamid Mukhtar, restorer (Head of the Conservation Department at the Sudan National
Museum, acting as Inspector of Antiquities). Ms Monika Kaminska assisted in the documentation during a short-term visit
to Dongola.
4) The fieldwork was covered with extra funds from the Polish Center of Archaeology of Warsaw University and some
financial assistance from the Ureusz Foundation to promote archaeological investigations in the Nile Valley. A one-week
extension was financed by the Ushua'ia Program of French Television Canal Deux working on a film on the past of Sudan.
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SUDAN
OLD DONGOLA
FIELDWORK IN 2002
Stefan Jakobielski
In 2002 two campaigns of fieldwork were carried out at the site of the monastery on Kom H
in Old Dongola. During the thirty-fifth season, which lasted from January 12 to February
26, 2002,0 activities were limited to the monastic compound area on Kom H.2> The
successive season, from November 21, 2002, until January 22, 2003,1 2 3) 4 concentrated on
essential conservation work inside the uncovered parts of the monastic compound. ^
1) The Mission in the 35th season comprised Dr. Stefan Jakobielski, Director; Dr. Malgorzata Martens-Czarnecka,
archaeologist; Mr. Wojciech Chmiel, restorer; Dr. Teresa Kelm-Krauze, architect; Mr. Krzysztof Pluskota, archaeologist,
pottery specialist; Mr. Jaroslaw Swigcicki and Mr. Daniel Gazda, archaeologists; Syd. Haidar Hamid Mukhtar, restorer
(Head of the Conservation Department at the Sudan National Museum, acting as Inspector of Antiquities); Ms Anna
Palczynska and Ms Aleksandra Nowicka, students of archaeology, Poznan University. Mrs. Elzbieta Jakobielska assisted in
the documentation while visiting the Mission in a private capacity.
2) Funds were provided by the Polish Center of Archaeology of Warsaw University with some financial assistance from
the Research Center of Mediterranean Archaeology of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Kinomax Enterprises (Poland) Ltd.
kindly provided some photographic equipment for the use of the expedition this season.
3) The Mission in the 36th season comprised Dr. Stefan Jakobielski, Director; Dr. Marcin Wiewiora, archaeologist-
architect; Mrs. Gabriela Chmiel, restorer; Messrs. Jaroslaw Swigcicki and Daniel Gazda, archaeologists; Ms Marta Gauza,
archaeozoologist; Syd. Haidar Hamid Mukhtar, restorer (Head of the Conservation Department at the Sudan National
Museum, acting as Inspector of Antiquities). Ms Monika Kaminska assisted in the documentation during a short-term visit
to Dongola.
4) The fieldwork was covered with extra funds from the Polish Center of Archaeology of Warsaw University and some
financial assistance from the Ureusz Foundation to promote archaeological investigations in the Nile Valley. A one-week
extension was financed by the Ushua'ia Program of French Television Canal Deux working on a film on the past of Sudan.
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