DOI issue:
Sudan
DOI article:Godlewski, Włodzimierz: Old Dongola: Kom A (Acropolis), 2003
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41371#0208
OLD DONGOLA
SUDAN
“THE KINGDOM OF THE POLIS OF DONGOLA”13)
POST-MAKURIAN TIMES (15TH-17TH CENTURIES)
After the royal court left Dongola in the
early second half of the 14th century and
an influx of new inhabitants occurred,
there was a resurgence of architecture in
the partly ruined town, on the citadel as
well as in the abandoned buildings of the
Cathedral and Cruciform Church. The
empty and somewhat damaged palace
structure was also reoccupied with
dwellings being built among the ruins.
During the past season, four such houses
were explored in the eastern and northern
parts of the palace and in the adjoining
area level with the filled in ground floor of
the building.
SWN.H.3
A house composed of traditionally two
rooms covered with a flat roof and
preceded by a courtyard in front of the
entrance on the west was built onto the
northern facade of Building B.I. The main
Fig. 12. Shelter built over the Cruciform Building (B.lll) for protection of the murals inside it
(Photo W. Godlewski)
13) The name of the kingdom survives in graffiti recently discovered at the complex in Banganarti and studied by
Dr. Adam tajtar (see Lajtar, JJP 33 (2003), 137-159)- Cf. also A. Lajtar's report on the Banganarti inscriptions from the
2003 season in the present volume.
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SUDAN
“THE KINGDOM OF THE POLIS OF DONGOLA”13)
POST-MAKURIAN TIMES (15TH-17TH CENTURIES)
After the royal court left Dongola in the
early second half of the 14th century and
an influx of new inhabitants occurred,
there was a resurgence of architecture in
the partly ruined town, on the citadel as
well as in the abandoned buildings of the
Cathedral and Cruciform Church. The
empty and somewhat damaged palace
structure was also reoccupied with
dwellings being built among the ruins.
During the past season, four such houses
were explored in the eastern and northern
parts of the palace and in the adjoining
area level with the filled in ground floor of
the building.
SWN.H.3
A house composed of traditionally two
rooms covered with a flat roof and
preceded by a courtyard in front of the
entrance on the west was built onto the
northern facade of Building B.I. The main
Fig. 12. Shelter built over the Cruciform Building (B.lll) for protection of the murals inside it
(Photo W. Godlewski)
13) The name of the kingdom survives in graffiti recently discovered at the complex in Banganarti and studied by
Dr. Adam tajtar (see Lajtar, JJP 33 (2003), 137-159)- Cf. also A. Lajtar's report on the Banganarti inscriptions from the
2003 season in the present volume.
206