DOI issue:
Egypt
DOI article:Medeksza, Stanisław; Bąkowska-Czerner, Grażyna; Czerner, Rafał; Zambrzycki, Piotr: Marina el-Alamein: conservation work in the 2007 season
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.42093#0096
MARINA EL-ALAMEIN
EGYPT
according to W.A. Daszewski (2005: 86),
who excavated a full column lying next to
the base from which it had toppled,
including all the drums, capital and joining
mortar. Columns of this kind had either
eight or nine drums beside the capital and
base, all made of limestone and measuring
from 28 cm (exceptionally 11 cm) to 35 cm
in height. The bottom drums of bigger
diameter were usually composed of two
separate halves. Despite their considerable
height, the columns were not very slender,
having a diameter of 50 cm; moreover, the
shafts were covered with thick double
coating of plaster, the top layer modeled in
imitation of fluting. The stuccowork
decoration of the columns has been
preserved on the upper parts of one of the
columns, but even after conservation
treatment (carried out by J. Lis as part of the
Polish Archaeological Mission’s program in
2005, cf. Daszewski etalii 2006: 88-90), it is
too fragile to be restored in situ and can be
displayed only in controlled museum
SECTION AA
0 5 10m
MKS
Fig. 7. South Portico with restored columns and bench in the background (top); section (AA in Fig. 6),
state afier the 2007season (Photo S. Medeksza, drawing M. Krawczyk-Szczerbinska)
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EGYPT
according to W.A. Daszewski (2005: 86),
who excavated a full column lying next to
the base from which it had toppled,
including all the drums, capital and joining
mortar. Columns of this kind had either
eight or nine drums beside the capital and
base, all made of limestone and measuring
from 28 cm (exceptionally 11 cm) to 35 cm
in height. The bottom drums of bigger
diameter were usually composed of two
separate halves. Despite their considerable
height, the columns were not very slender,
having a diameter of 50 cm; moreover, the
shafts were covered with thick double
coating of plaster, the top layer modeled in
imitation of fluting. The stuccowork
decoration of the columns has been
preserved on the upper parts of one of the
columns, but even after conservation
treatment (carried out by J. Lis as part of the
Polish Archaeological Mission’s program in
2005, cf. Daszewski etalii 2006: 88-90), it is
too fragile to be restored in situ and can be
displayed only in controlled museum
SECTION AA
0 5 10m
MKS
Fig. 7. South Portico with restored columns and bench in the background (top); section (AA in Fig. 6),
state afier the 2007season (Photo S. Medeksza, drawing M. Krawczyk-Szczerbinska)
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