Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (19.2007(2010))

SHEIKH ABD EL-GURNA

EGYPT

SHEIKH ABD EL-GURNA
HERMITAGE IN TOMB 1152 AND CHAPEL IN
TOMB 1151

Tomasz Gorecki

This season (between 15 December 2006 and 28 February 2007) archaeological
work at the site concentrated in the area north of the hermitage (already in front of
Tomb 1151) and in the southern part of the monastic enclosure (in front of Tomb
1152 and inside it).1 The program covered examination of various parts of the core
hermitage, coupled with an effort to understand the role in the monastic complex
played by the neighboring Tomb 1151, which yielded modest evidence of secondary
occupation by the monks. The two tombs are both from the Middle Kingdom and
their axes are perpendicular to one another, the entrances some 40 m apart.

1 The team directed by Tomasz Gorecki comprised: Szymon Maslak, archaeologist;| Eliza Szpakowska |, archaeologist-
egyptologist; Zbigniew Polak, archaeologist; Grzegorz Ochala, archaeologist; Ewa Parandowska, restorer; Monika Wifch,
student of archaeology (University of Warsaw). The SCA was represented by Ms Amal Eweid Nasser Mohamed from the
Islamic and Coptic Antiquities Inspectorate.

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