Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (19.2007(2010))

BANGANARTI

SUDAN

northern end of the wall is already outside the
archaeological concession investigated by the
Polish team.
Robbers’ pits have done much to obliterate
the line of the defense wall, as well as the plans
of the structures that had stood against the
inside face of the wall [Fig. 6]. The thickness
of the curtain wall could not be established
with certainty. At the southern end, it seems to
have been 2.85 m wide [Fig. 6, left - A];
apparently bulging to 6 m in the central part

of the sector [Fig. 6, left - B]. Nowhere else
on the site does the curtain wall attain 6 m in
thickness. By comparison with the remains
found in other sectors, this thickening of the
curtain wall can be interpreted as one or more
structures built against a much thinner curtain
wall.
The damage to the wall has also made it
impossible to ascertain the dimensions and
the arrangement of the mud bricks of which
it was made.


Section 2

Section 1
ΐ'/ΡΆ - mud brick wall
- robbery pit
— — - sector border
— · · - concession
border
.- section border



North gate

Fig. 6. Sector V of the curtain wall: plan (lefi); view of section 3 from the northwest (top right); vieiv
of section 1 from the southeast (bottom left)
(Photos M. Drzewiecki; plan R. Lopaciuk, M. Drzewiecki)

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