Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (4.1992(1993))

The unpublished walls of the outer colonnade were
restored to full height by Baraize. All the decoration preserved in
.HfM as well as the decorated blocks which Baraize built into the
reconstructed wall together with more than 20 large blocks from
temple stores, apparently belonging to these walls were recorded.
The main problem now is to correct the obvious mistakes made
during the old restoration and to propose the corrected version of
scenes based on a new organization of the existing blocks. The
northern wall of the outer hypostyle may serve as an example,
only a few blocks were built into it more or less correctly. All the
decorated blocks from the top of the wall come from other walls.
There is even one which comes from the solar complex on the
upper terraced
Continued recording and studies of the temple architecture.
The plan of the Hathor shrine was made this year, (Fig. 3)
bringing new data on building history of the Hathor shrine and
the temple as a whole, which differs from the theories published
so far'".
Documentation of the royal iconography was completed
this season, the study of depictions of ships and ceremonial barks
is advanced. Work continued also on praparing a complete list of
the hieroglyphic signs appearing in the temple.
Texts previously omitted were hand-copied to add to the
corpus of texts from the temple. A word index has been started

'. Cf. ETIX (1976), fig. 5 on p. 76.
Recently summed up by Wysocki, AfZM/X 38 (1992),
233-254).

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