Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (18.2006(2008))

OLD DONGOLA

SUDAN

OLD DONGOLA
FIELDWORK
SEASONS 2005/2006 AND 2006
Stefan Jakobielski and Maigorzata Martens-Czarnecka

Two seasons of excavations were carried out at the site of the Monastery on Kom H (otherwise
identified as the Monastery of the Holy Trinity) in Old Dongola: the 41st between
14 December 2005 and 27 January 2006,1 and the 42nd between 18 November and
20 December 20062 (for previous work, cf Jakobielski 2005a; Martens-Czarnecka 2005b;
Gazda 2005a; for the most recent studies, cf Jakobielski 2005b; Gazda 2005b; Martens-
Czarnecka 2005a; 2006; Zurawski 2006; Jakobielski (ed.) 2006; Jakobielski 2008).
Work was undertaken in the so-called Southwestern Annex and the Southwestern
Building, concurrently with the excavation of the Monastery Church and the area adjoining
it on the east and south (reported on separately in this volume by Daniel Gazda, who has
been in charge of this work from the beginning). In the later season, part of the so-called
Central Building was excavated, as well as the area east of the Monastery Church and the
easternmost part of the Northwestern Annex (specifically Room 26 and a passageway
leading to it). Investigations of Kom J, began in 2003, were completed by Daniel Gazda
(see Appendix 2 below).

1 The staff was directed by Stefan Jakobielski and comprised Malgorzata Martens-Czarnecka, archaeologist, art historian;
Karol Piasecki, anthropologist; Adam Lajtar, epigraphist; Tadeusz Badowski, restorer; Daniel Gazda, archaeologist;
Ryszard Szemraj, restorer, constructor; Andrzej Romanowski, archaeologist; Anna Biaszczyk, archaeologist,
draftsperson; Marek Puszkarski, architectural documentalist; Malgorzata Purzyhska, archaeologist; Roman Lopaciuk,
- geodesist; Beata Teodorczyk, documentalist; Aneta Cedro, student of archaeology from Toruh. The inspector
representing the National Corporation of Antiquities and Museums was Amal Mohammed Ahmed.
The funds for this (and the next) field campaign were provided by the Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology of
the University of Warsaw with some financial assistance for travel expenses from the Research Centre for Mediterranean
Archaeology of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Ureusz Foundation.
2 The staff was directed by Dr. Malgorzata Martens-Czarnecka and comprised Stefan Jakobielski, archaeologist and
epigraphist; Dobieslawa Baginska, archaeologist, pottery specialist; Dorota Moryto-Naumiuk, restorer; Hanna
Kozifiska-Sowa, archaeologist, draftsperson; Daniel Gazda and Jaroslaw Swigcicki, archaeologists. Umaima Hasab Ar-
Rasul, restorer in the Sudan National Museum, represented the NCAM. Augmenting the staff as volunteers were Anna
Biaszczyk, archaeologist, draftsperson, and Natalia Jakubowska, photographer.

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