Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (17.2005(2007))

OLD DONGOLA

SUDAN

PALACE PHASE III (3.B.I)
The third phase of the Palace Building has
been preserved in the central and south-
eastern part of the old palace; it covers
rooms B.1.50-54 and B.I.09 and B.I.30.
The building may have imaginably includ-
ed other rooms in the northeastern part.
Floors have been recorded in B.09; B.I.30
and B.1.51-52, rising over 5.50 m above
the original walking level of the palace.
Thus, the building of the third phase
(3.B.I) appears to have taken advantage of
the upper-floor walls of the original phase;
further architectural studies should be able

to confirm this idea. The cups and vases
found in the fill on the floor of this phase
of the building [Fig. 4}, as well as mud
stoppers from big zirs, represent types that
W.Y. Adams attributed to the Terminal
Christian period.6 The bones of two small
monkeys were discovered in room
B.I.50N. They were identified by archeo-
zoologist Marta Osypinska as belonging to
young green monkeys or grivets (Chloro-
cebus aethiops, considered by some as a single
species Cercopithecus aethiops), a sub-Saharan
species of medium-sized primates with
greenish-gray back.


Fig. 4- Pottery from 3-B.l: mugs, Add.05.294, Add.05.324; neck of storage pot, Add.05.333; vase,
Add.05.253. Not to scale (Photo A. Obluski)

6 W.Y. Adams, Ceramic Industries of Medieval Nubia, II (Kentucky 1986), 506-514.

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