Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (17.2005(2007))

NAQLUN

EGYPT

The doorway in the southwestern
corner of the building, 0.67 m wide, was
coated carefully with light-colored mud
plaster [Fig. 4}.21 Measuring 0.22 m above
the floor in corridor G.l, the threshold
should be considered as relatively high.
Just inside the doorway on the left, a door
socket has survived and just above it,
impressed in the plaster, traces of a turning
vertical door pivot.
The second doorway from the south,
0.76-0.77 m wide, giving entry to room
G.10, has both the jambs preserved in

good condition. They were built of baked
bricks (23-25 x 12-13 x 7 cm) laid flat.
A wooden threshold and jamb have also
been preserved. To the east of the doorway,
the bondwork includes wooden elements of
unknown function.
Inner doorways22 in the complex were
furnished with either wood or brick
thresholds. Beams of wood used as
thresholds were laid on a layer of bricks
arranged as headers on edge. The brick
thresholds consisted of just the bricks, laid
as headers on edge in most cases.


Fig. 4■ Southwestern entrance to Building G (G.l), view from the north
(Photo W. Godlewski)
21 Cl. Godlewski, PAM XV, op. cit., 147, Fig. 6.
22 Width of doors between rooms: G.2 and G.9, 0.92 m; G.3 and G.4, 0.92 m; G.5 and G.4, 0.88 m: G.5 and G.6,
0.88 m; G.5 and G.7, 0.82 m; G.4 and G.9, 0.87 m.

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