Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (17.2005(2007))

NAQLUN

EGYPT

STAIRS

The staircase in room G.IO2-7 was entered
from the north through a door 78 cm wide.
A wooden beam in the threshold rested on
a row of baked bricks (24-25 x 10-11 x 6-
6.5 cm) set on edge [Fig. 5}. The door
socket on the inside of the threshold
indicates that the door opened inside. The
steps started directly to the right of the
door, while the space under the steps could
be accessed from behind a low wall
opposite the entrance. The stairs were
0.70-0.73 m wide. Fragments of five steps
and two landings have survived. Each step
was 12-14 cm high, the edges reinforced
with wooden beams. The staircase was
likely connected with room G.ll and

presumably with the entrance gate from
street E.l into the space of street N.l.
The steps in room G.2 were connected
with the basin found there. Three steps, each
c. 0.20-0.25 m high, led to a platform above
the basin. They took on the form of a massive
mud-brick structure. The treads alone were
laid with baked brick (25x12-13x7-8 cm).
More but poorly preserved steps were
located in the northeastern corner of room
G.6. It was likely from here that room G.8
was entered after the complex was extended.
Nothing but the side walls of these steps has
been preserved, coupled with the substructure
of the steps of mud brick and numerous baked
bricks (23-23.5 x 10.5-11 x 7 cm) in the fill.


Fig. 5. Staircase in room G.10, view from the east
(Photo W. Godlewski)

23 Godlewski, PAM XVI, op. cit., 187.

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