Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (15.2003(2004))

NAQLUN

EGYPT

NAQLUN (NEKLONI)
Season 2003
Wlodzimierz Godlewski

The 2003 field campaign of the Polish Center of Archaeology of Warsaw University at the
site of Naqlun (Deir el Malak Gubriel) in the Fayum was carried out between September 7
and October 8. Following upon last year’s discovery of a sizable assemblage of textiles coming
from a Christian cemetery of the Fatimid and Ayyubidperiods on site A in the central part
of the kom, ^ the team concentrated on documenting and studying this category of finds.
A final review, prior to publication, of the Greek and Coptic documents from the seasons
1986-1990, deposited in the Coptic Museum in Cairo, was also carried out. Some
archaeological investigations of the monastic complex on Site A were undertaken
The work proceeded efficiently and according to plan thanks to all-encompassing
assistance from the Authorities of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Coptic Museum
in Cairo, as well as the SCA staff in Fayum, especially Mr. Ibrahim Ragab, the inspector
attached to the expedition, to whom we are immensely indebted. The generous hospitality of
the monks from the Naqlun monastery is acknowledged with equal gratitude.

1) Reported on by W. Godlewski, J. van der Vliet, B. Czaja-Szewczak and A. Lyzwa in PAM XIV, Reports 2002 (2003),
163-195.
2) The Mission was directed by Prof. Dr. Wlodzimierz Godlewski and included: Dr. Jacques van der Vliet, coptologist;
Dr. Tomasz Derda, papyrologist; Dr. Christian Gaubert, arabist; Dr. Gisele Helmecke, arabist and art historian; Ms Barbara
Czaja-Szewczak, textile restorer; Mr. Tomasz Szmagier, photographer; Mrs. Maria Mossakowska-Gaubert, archaeologist;
Mr. Szymon Maslak and Mr. Grzegorz Ochala, students of archaeology.

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