DOI issue:
Sudan
DOI article:Jakobielski, Stefan: Monastery 1995
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26390#0107
KOM H, SITE NW
The north-western section of the monastic complex,
excavated since 1991/92\ reveals a complicated plan, which is the
result of both consecutive rebuilding and westward expansion of
the chief monastery buildings beyond the enclosure wall with
semicircular towers (Fig. 1).
The original layout of the buildings is evidently earlier than
the 10^ century and can partly be reconstructed on the grounds of
existing remains of walls in the upper strata of the fill. Gradual
expansion of building activity to the west did not take place before
the 11^ century. In the 12^ century, the development of the
mortuary and commemorative complex gave the western extension
of the Monastery its final shape.
Work in the 1995 season was focused mostly on
distinguishing and dating the individual parts of the NW complex
in order to prepare the ground for further methodical exploration
of the site. Excavations and trial trenches were dug here, and the
tops of walls, which protruded on the surface, were cleared on a
large area in the highest part of the Korn.
Two individual buildings, code-named NW-N, NW-S, were
singled out m the section of the Monastery's NW complex
excavated this season (Fig. 2, 3). Both are earlier than the
12^ century, and were erected outside the former western facade of
the alleged main monastery building (NW-E) located in this part of
the compound.
The Northern Building (NW-N) is of nearly square plan
(9 x 0.3 m), most probably storeyed, and comprises 9 rooms. A U-
shaped corridor enclosed the main block of rooms. The southern
section of the corridor, which is connected with the western gate.
^ Cf. S. Jakobielski, AW IV 1992 (1993), 102-106; AW V 1993 (1994),
115-126; ATM VI 1994 (1995), pp. 84-92; id.. Monastery of the Holy Trinity
at Old Dongola - a short archaeological report, in: The Spirituality of Ancient
Monasticism. Tc/3 of /Ac AAer/ioho/M/ Co/ZooM/M/M, Cracow-Tyniec 1995,
pp. 36-45.
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The north-western section of the monastic complex,
excavated since 1991/92\ reveals a complicated plan, which is the
result of both consecutive rebuilding and westward expansion of
the chief monastery buildings beyond the enclosure wall with
semicircular towers (Fig. 1).
The original layout of the buildings is evidently earlier than
the 10^ century and can partly be reconstructed on the grounds of
existing remains of walls in the upper strata of the fill. Gradual
expansion of building activity to the west did not take place before
the 11^ century. In the 12^ century, the development of the
mortuary and commemorative complex gave the western extension
of the Monastery its final shape.
Work in the 1995 season was focused mostly on
distinguishing and dating the individual parts of the NW complex
in order to prepare the ground for further methodical exploration
of the site. Excavations and trial trenches were dug here, and the
tops of walls, which protruded on the surface, were cleared on a
large area in the highest part of the Korn.
Two individual buildings, code-named NW-N, NW-S, were
singled out m the section of the Monastery's NW complex
excavated this season (Fig. 2, 3). Both are earlier than the
12^ century, and were erected outside the former western facade of
the alleged main monastery building (NW-E) located in this part of
the compound.
The Northern Building (NW-N) is of nearly square plan
(9 x 0.3 m), most probably storeyed, and comprises 9 rooms. A U-
shaped corridor enclosed the main block of rooms. The southern
section of the corridor, which is connected with the western gate.
^ Cf. S. Jakobielski, AW IV 1992 (1993), 102-106; AW V 1993 (1994),
115-126; ATM VI 1994 (1995), pp. 84-92; id.. Monastery of the Holy Trinity
at Old Dongola - a short archaeological report, in: The Spirituality of Ancient
Monasticism. Tc/3 of /Ac AAer/ioho/M/ Co/ZooM/M/M, Cracow-Tyniec 1995,
pp. 36-45.
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