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DOI Artikel:Żurawski, Bogdan: Banganarti: SDRS season 2003
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41371#0233
BANGANARTI
SUDAN
BANGANARTI
SDRS SEASON 2003
Bogdan Zurawski
The sixth field season of the Southern Dongola Reach Survey ran from 16 January through
16 March 2003■Foremost on the agenda was the excavation, conservation and restoration
work at the site of the Banganarti mausoleum-church, coupled with extensive documentation
work on recording the inscriptions and murals from the church.
The excavation program ran concurrently with an aerial reconnaissance in the Fourth
Cataract region combined with photographing the entire SDRS concession from above (Figs.
1,2). The flight, organized jointly with the Sudan Archaeological Research Society Mission
to the Fourth Cataract region (Amri-Kirbekan Survey) and the German Mission at Naga,
was approved by the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums. The AN-2 plane
was provided by the Sudana-RZL crop-dusting company, based at Hassa Heissa.
1) The staff, directed by the present author, comprised: Dr. Karol Piasecki, physical anthropologist; Dr. Adam Lajtar,
epigraphist; Ms Jackie Phillips, archaeologist, ceramologist (who further undertook to give an intensive ‘master’s course’ in
ceramic identification, terminology and recording to interested team members); Mr. Piotr Osypinski, archaeologist, lithic
specialist; Mrs. Marta Gauza-Osypinska, archaeologist, archaeozoologist; Mrs. Magdalena Laptas, archaeologist, art
historian; Mrs. Edyta Klimaszewska-Drabot, archaeologist; Mr. Jacek Poremba, photographer; Mrs. Gabriela Chmiel,
restorer; Mr. Maciej Kurcz, archaeologist, ethnographer; and Mr. Hyder Hamid Mukhtar, restorer. The National
Corporation for Antiquities and Museums was represented by Ms Nahla Mustafa Suliman.
Augmenting the staff were student-volunteers from Warsaw University who assisted in the pottery drawing: Ms Anna
Jaklewicz and Ms Olga Bialostocka. We were also glad to host, briefly, Ms Caroline Rochelod from the University of
Toronto. Mrs. Melanie Blackmore was greatly busy documenting the activities of the mission on digital movie camera.
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SUDAN
BANGANARTI
SDRS SEASON 2003
Bogdan Zurawski
The sixth field season of the Southern Dongola Reach Survey ran from 16 January through
16 March 2003■Foremost on the agenda was the excavation, conservation and restoration
work at the site of the Banganarti mausoleum-church, coupled with extensive documentation
work on recording the inscriptions and murals from the church.
The excavation program ran concurrently with an aerial reconnaissance in the Fourth
Cataract region combined with photographing the entire SDRS concession from above (Figs.
1,2). The flight, organized jointly with the Sudan Archaeological Research Society Mission
to the Fourth Cataract region (Amri-Kirbekan Survey) and the German Mission at Naga,
was approved by the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums. The AN-2 plane
was provided by the Sudana-RZL crop-dusting company, based at Hassa Heissa.
1) The staff, directed by the present author, comprised: Dr. Karol Piasecki, physical anthropologist; Dr. Adam Lajtar,
epigraphist; Ms Jackie Phillips, archaeologist, ceramologist (who further undertook to give an intensive ‘master’s course’ in
ceramic identification, terminology and recording to interested team members); Mr. Piotr Osypinski, archaeologist, lithic
specialist; Mrs. Marta Gauza-Osypinska, archaeologist, archaeozoologist; Mrs. Magdalena Laptas, archaeologist, art
historian; Mrs. Edyta Klimaszewska-Drabot, archaeologist; Mr. Jacek Poremba, photographer; Mrs. Gabriela Chmiel,
restorer; Mr. Maciej Kurcz, archaeologist, ethnographer; and Mr. Hyder Hamid Mukhtar, restorer. The National
Corporation for Antiquities and Museums was represented by Ms Nahla Mustafa Suliman.
Augmenting the staff were student-volunteers from Warsaw University who assisted in the pottery drawing: Ms Anna
Jaklewicz and Ms Olga Bialostocka. We were also glad to host, briefly, Ms Caroline Rochelod from the University of
Toronto. Mrs. Melanie Blackmore was greatly busy documenting the activities of the mission on digital movie camera.
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