DOI Artikel:
Daszewski, Wiktor Andrzej: Marina 1990
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26389#0039
supply dating evidence. The box-like tomb structures may be dated on the basis of some
terracotta oil lamps and glass vessels (mainly unguentaria and balsamaria) to the period
from the end of the 1!^ century B.C. to the second half of the ls^ century A.D.. A similar
date can be assigned to hypogeum T 1GH.
The monumental nature of the tombs on the southwestern necropolis at Marina el-
Alamein corresponds to a peak in the development of the ancient town. At present some
extensive living complexes are being excavated by the RAO in the area of the settlement.
These are large prosperous houses with inner peristyle courts and reception halls. The
rich architectural decoration of these houses is executed with great care as are murals,
fragments of which have been preserved in situ.
The first results of anthropological examinations draw an interesting picture of
the population of this ancient centre. The sample collected in the necropolis is
constituted by 78 skeletons. The mortality rate of children in the age group of 0-7 years
is high (36%), typically for societies of antiquity. The mortality rate is almost identical
for men and women in the age groups 20-35 (33%) and over 55 years (2.5% and 1.5%).
However, in the age group 35-55 the mortality rate of males was six times that of
females. The average age at death of males was about AO years, of females around 35. It
should be noted though that the sample is too small to permit any more general
conclusions. Finally, it is worth mentioning that the average number of children borne
to the women in this sample was three to five. Detailed findings concerning the
morphological picture as well as pathology will be published separately by Dr Maria
Kaczmarek.
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terracotta oil lamps and glass vessels (mainly unguentaria and balsamaria) to the period
from the end of the 1!^ century B.C. to the second half of the ls^ century A.D.. A similar
date can be assigned to hypogeum T 1GH.
The monumental nature of the tombs on the southwestern necropolis at Marina el-
Alamein corresponds to a peak in the development of the ancient town. At present some
extensive living complexes are being excavated by the RAO in the area of the settlement.
These are large prosperous houses with inner peristyle courts and reception halls. The
rich architectural decoration of these houses is executed with great care as are murals,
fragments of which have been preserved in situ.
The first results of anthropological examinations draw an interesting picture of
the population of this ancient centre. The sample collected in the necropolis is
constituted by 78 skeletons. The mortality rate of children in the age group of 0-7 years
is high (36%), typically for societies of antiquity. The mortality rate is almost identical
for men and women in the age groups 20-35 (33%) and over 55 years (2.5% and 1.5%).
However, in the age group 35-55 the mortality rate of males was six times that of
females. The average age at death of males was about AO years, of females around 35. It
should be noted though that the sample is too small to permit any more general
conclusions. Finally, it is worth mentioning that the average number of children borne
to the women in this sample was three to five. Detailed findings concerning the
morphological picture as well as pathology will be published separately by Dr Maria
Kaczmarek.
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