DOI article:
Daszewski, Wiktor Andrzej: Marina el-Alamein 1993
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.43746#0028
The last of the box-like tombs investigated this season was
tomb T1J which was already mentioned briefly in an earlier
report/ The tomb was erected over a latitudinally oriented
trench cut in bedrock, containing one burial. The trench was
covered with flat limestone slabs and a saddle-roof of limestone
slabs. The aboveground monument took on the form of a rectangu-
lar box with two loculi placed on either side of the axis traced by
the trench burial below. The center part of the box above the
trench was filled with debris, earth and bits of mortar, constituting
a kind of reinforced foundation for the great pillar which crowned
the structure. This debris filling ran all the way up to the top of the
pillar, acting as its reinforcement/ The pillar was set up on a
three-step podium and was crowned with a type of capital which
resembles "Nabatean" capitals^ and is characteristic of the region.
On top of this capital there was a smaller podium supporting a
smaller pillar and yet another capital of the same type as above but
smaller. In the southern loculus of tomb T1J four skeletons were
discovered. The three skeletons in the upper layer belonged to a
man, a woman and a child. In the bottom layer a single burial of
a man was found.
4 Id., PAM 111,1991 (1992), p.32.
$ See J. Dobrowolski on the reconstruction of this tomb in the current PAM,
p. 34ff. A graphic reconstruction of this tomb was presented earlier, in PAM III,
1991 (1992), p.37, Fig.4.
6 Cf. Daszewski, Nouvelles recherches sur la cote Nord de l’Egypte. Un
type meconnu de chapiteaux, ETXV, 1990, 109-124
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tomb T1J which was already mentioned briefly in an earlier
report/ The tomb was erected over a latitudinally oriented
trench cut in bedrock, containing one burial. The trench was
covered with flat limestone slabs and a saddle-roof of limestone
slabs. The aboveground monument took on the form of a rectangu-
lar box with two loculi placed on either side of the axis traced by
the trench burial below. The center part of the box above the
trench was filled with debris, earth and bits of mortar, constituting
a kind of reinforced foundation for the great pillar which crowned
the structure. This debris filling ran all the way up to the top of the
pillar, acting as its reinforcement/ The pillar was set up on a
three-step podium and was crowned with a type of capital which
resembles "Nabatean" capitals^ and is characteristic of the region.
On top of this capital there was a smaller podium supporting a
smaller pillar and yet another capital of the same type as above but
smaller. In the southern loculus of tomb T1J four skeletons were
discovered. The three skeletons in the upper layer belonged to a
man, a woman and a child. In the bottom layer a single burial of
a man was found.
4 Id., PAM 111,1991 (1992), p.32.
$ See J. Dobrowolski on the reconstruction of this tomb in the current PAM,
p. 34ff. A graphic reconstruction of this tomb was presented earlier, in PAM III,
1991 (1992), p.37, Fig.4.
6 Cf. Daszewski, Nouvelles recherches sur la cote Nord de l’Egypte. Un
type meconnu de chapiteaux, ETXV, 1990, 109-124
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