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DOI Artikel:Szymańska, Hanna; Babraj, Krzysztof: Marea: report on the excavations of the polish archaeological mission in 2006
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MAREA
EGYPT
MAREA
REPORT ON THE EXCAVATIONS OF THE
POLISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSION
IN 2006
Hanna Szymabska, Krzysztof Babraj
The seventh season of Polish excavations at Marea lasted from August 10 to September 28,
2006.1 The season's main objective was to perform some archaeological and conservation
works in the baths uncovered in previous campaigns (2000-2002), in the funerary chapel
(2003) and the basilica church (2003-2003). These three structures were partly destroyed
and are still threatened by rain, wind and other factors. The basilica was measured this year
with a Nikon Pulse Laser Station NPL-332, and other features, namely the baths and
funerary chapel, measured in the traditional methodology in 2002, were verified.
Conservation works this year encompassed two furnaces and two hypocaust cellars in the
baths, as well as the basilica kiln and funerary chapel (see below, report by B. Wronska-
Kucy).
1 The team was directed by Hanna SzymaAska and comprised: Krzysztof Babraj (Deputy Director), Dorota Dzierzbicka,
Wojciech Dzierzbicki, Renata Kucharczyk and Grzegorz Majcherek, archaeologists; Daria Tarara and Artur Blaszczyk,
architects; Joanna Babraj, documentalist and conservator, student of conservation in the Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow;
Piotr Suszek, photographer; Barbara WroAska-Kucy, architect and restorer; and Jacek Kucy, photographer. The
Supreme Council of Antiquities was represented by Inspectors: Amal Hassan Hamed, archaeologist, and Rabeia
Ibrahim Mohamed, restorer.
We would like to express our deepest gratitude to Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of
Antiquities, and Mr. Magdy El-Ghandour, General Director of Foreign and Egyptian Mission Affairs and Permanent
Committee. Our work would have been impossible to complete without the cooperation of Mr. Adly Roushdy Amir,
General Director of the Alexandrian Antiquities Department and the friendly cooperation of Ms Emily Nessim,
General Director of Excavations in Alexandria.
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EGYPT
MAREA
REPORT ON THE EXCAVATIONS OF THE
POLISH ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSION
IN 2006
Hanna Szymabska, Krzysztof Babraj
The seventh season of Polish excavations at Marea lasted from August 10 to September 28,
2006.1 The season's main objective was to perform some archaeological and conservation
works in the baths uncovered in previous campaigns (2000-2002), in the funerary chapel
(2003) and the basilica church (2003-2003). These three structures were partly destroyed
and are still threatened by rain, wind and other factors. The basilica was measured this year
with a Nikon Pulse Laser Station NPL-332, and other features, namely the baths and
funerary chapel, measured in the traditional methodology in 2002, were verified.
Conservation works this year encompassed two furnaces and two hypocaust cellars in the
baths, as well as the basilica kiln and funerary chapel (see below, report by B. Wronska-
Kucy).
1 The team was directed by Hanna SzymaAska and comprised: Krzysztof Babraj (Deputy Director), Dorota Dzierzbicka,
Wojciech Dzierzbicki, Renata Kucharczyk and Grzegorz Majcherek, archaeologists; Daria Tarara and Artur Blaszczyk,
architects; Joanna Babraj, documentalist and conservator, student of conservation in the Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow;
Piotr Suszek, photographer; Barbara WroAska-Kucy, architect and restorer; and Jacek Kucy, photographer. The
Supreme Council of Antiquities was represented by Inspectors: Amal Hassan Hamed, archaeologist, and Rabeia
Ibrahim Mohamed, restorer.
We would like to express our deepest gratitude to Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of
Antiquities, and Mr. Magdy El-Ghandour, General Director of Foreign and Egyptian Mission Affairs and Permanent
Committee. Our work would have been impossible to complete without the cooperation of Mr. Adly Roushdy Amir,
General Director of the Alexandrian Antiquities Department and the friendly cooperation of Ms Emily Nessim,
General Director of Excavations in Alexandria.
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