DOI article:
Godlewski, Włodzimierz: Old Dongola town fortifications, 1993
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this tower, it should be assumed that it may have been as much as
9 m high.
The two seasons combined have revealed that the town of
Old Dongola had its own massive fortifications which were
subsequently developed to include a large earthen platform, west
of the northwestern tower, where some military installations were
presumably to be found/ The platform was constructed in the
first half of the 6^ century judging by the evidence provided by
pottery and a foundry/ The fortifications are probably earlier in
date, definitely earlier than the Christianization of Makuria, if the
fact that the earliest churches of Dongola (BX and the Old Church)
were built outside the fortifications can be taken as relevant to this
point/ Therefore, a tentative date in the late 5^ century for the
construction of the Dongola walls is currentlv admissible.
W. Godlewski, The fortifications, op.cit., 105-107.
3 lb. id., 107-108.
4 W. Godlewski, The earliest evidence of the settlement at Old Dongola,
Proceedings of the 6th Meroitic Symposium, Berlin 1992. in pres*.
132
9 m high.
The two seasons combined have revealed that the town of
Old Dongola had its own massive fortifications which were
subsequently developed to include a large earthen platform, west
of the northwestern tower, where some military installations were
presumably to be found/ The platform was constructed in the
first half of the 6^ century judging by the evidence provided by
pottery and a foundry/ The fortifications are probably earlier in
date, definitely earlier than the Christianization of Makuria, if the
fact that the earliest churches of Dongola (BX and the Old Church)
were built outside the fortifications can be taken as relevant to this
point/ Therefore, a tentative date in the late 5^ century for the
construction of the Dongola walls is currentlv admissible.
W. Godlewski, The fortifications, op.cit., 105-107.
3 lb. id., 107-108.
4 W. Godlewski, The earliest evidence of the settlement at Old Dongola,
Proceedings of the 6th Meroitic Symposium, Berlin 1992. in pres*.
132