Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (8.1996(1997))

Marek Marciniak
(1937-1996)
Marek Marciniak
passed away on October
11, 1996. He was one
of the most prominent
Polish egyptologists and
member of many scho-
larly undertakings orga-
nized by the Polish
Centre of Mediterranean
Archaeology.
A student of
Tadeusz Andrzejewski
and Jaroslav Cerny,
Marciniak was for many
years a close associate of
Professor Kazimierz Michalowski, directing on his behalf the
Mediterranean Archaeology Department of the Polish Academy of
Sciences. He was part, practically from the very beginning, in
whatever Polish archaeologists in the Mediterranean were involved
in after World War II. He participated in excavations in Alexandria
and Tell Atrib in Egypt and at Palmyra in Syria. During the
international campaign to save the monuments of Nubia, he headed
an independent study mission to Dabod, but primarily he helped
uncover the famous Faras cathedral with its splendid wall
paintings.
A turning point in his scholarly career came with his work in
the mission to Deir el-Bahari which resulted in an important
publication of the Hieratic inscriptions from the temple of
Tuthmosis III.


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