DOI Artikel:
Daszewski, Wiktor Andrzej: Marina 1990
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26389#0034
cleared during the previous seasons. The tombs were constructed on ground level and
were made of dressed limestone blocks. As a rule they took on the form of large
rectangular "boxes", around 2.8 x 2.5 m, equipped with 2, 3 or A loculi for the dead.
Crowning the structures was a kind of stylobate of 2 or 3 steps constituting a base of
sorts for the architectural monument built on top of the tomb: a massive column in the
case of Tomb T 1 or a pillar with corner pilasters in tomb T IB, or finally a pillar with
engaged columns (Tomb T ID). The capitals which topped the column as well as the
pilasters were of a specific type recalling so-called Nabatean capitals.3
The loculi in the tombs were very much the same in size (about 2 m long 0.6 m
wide and from 0.9 to 1 m high), but they differed substantially in the number of dead
laid to rest in them. This varied from one to several. During this season three loculi
were investigated thoroughly: the northern loculus of T IB and the middle and northern
loculi of T ID. In the loculus of Tomb IB 13 skeletons were found. Anthropological
examinations identified 3 males in the age groups 35-40(1) and 30-47 (2) and 2 females,
16-18 and 25-55 years old. The remaining skeletons belonged to one newborn and 7
children from 18 months to 5 years of age.
The disposition of human remains in tomb T ID constitutes an interesting case.
The centra! loculus, which had been discovered intact, closed with a slab decorated with
a relief representation of the serpent Agathodaimon (see earlier report), was found to
contain just one skeleton, that of a male 20-30 years old. In contrast, the adjacent
northern loculus (the southern was not investigated this year) yielded remains of 22
persons including 5 males in the 35-55 age group, 2 females (40-50 years) and 15
children.
Reconstruction work proceeding on Tomb 1 (excavated in the 1987/88 season)
uncovered a third loculus beside the two already known, which had contained 11 and
16 burials respectively. This new loculus, discovered In the central part of the box-like
tomb structure which served as a proper base for the columnar monument decorating
3 See W. A. Daszewski, itudes et Travaux 15 (1991).
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were made of dressed limestone blocks. As a rule they took on the form of large
rectangular "boxes", around 2.8 x 2.5 m, equipped with 2, 3 or A loculi for the dead.
Crowning the structures was a kind of stylobate of 2 or 3 steps constituting a base of
sorts for the architectural monument built on top of the tomb: a massive column in the
case of Tomb T 1 or a pillar with corner pilasters in tomb T IB, or finally a pillar with
engaged columns (Tomb T ID). The capitals which topped the column as well as the
pilasters were of a specific type recalling so-called Nabatean capitals.3
The loculi in the tombs were very much the same in size (about 2 m long 0.6 m
wide and from 0.9 to 1 m high), but they differed substantially in the number of dead
laid to rest in them. This varied from one to several. During this season three loculi
were investigated thoroughly: the northern loculus of T IB and the middle and northern
loculi of T ID. In the loculus of Tomb IB 13 skeletons were found. Anthropological
examinations identified 3 males in the age groups 35-40(1) and 30-47 (2) and 2 females,
16-18 and 25-55 years old. The remaining skeletons belonged to one newborn and 7
children from 18 months to 5 years of age.
The disposition of human remains in tomb T ID constitutes an interesting case.
The centra! loculus, which had been discovered intact, closed with a slab decorated with
a relief representation of the serpent Agathodaimon (see earlier report), was found to
contain just one skeleton, that of a male 20-30 years old. In contrast, the adjacent
northern loculus (the southern was not investigated this year) yielded remains of 22
persons including 5 males in the 35-55 age group, 2 females (40-50 years) and 15
children.
Reconstruction work proceeding on Tomb 1 (excavated in the 1987/88 season)
uncovered a third loculus beside the two already known, which had contained 11 and
16 burials respectively. This new loculus, discovered In the central part of the box-like
tomb structure which served as a proper base for the columnar monument decorating
3 See W. A. Daszewski, itudes et Travaux 15 (1991).
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