DOI issue:
Sudan
DOI article:Żurawski, Bogdan: Old Dongola: Kom H, southwestern unit
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.41241#0175
R.2c by means of two arches reinforcing the vault. A set of rooms
(R.l, R.4, R.5) joining R.2 on the northern side was constructed
earlier (but after Unit R.6 + R.7 was raised). Thus, the suite of
rooms R.3 + R.2 was the latest extension of the building and was
apparently intended to facilitate inside communication. Prior to the
building of R.2, R.l was entered through the opening in its
northern wall. The western entrance to R.l was cut later, after R.2
had been erected.
The entire length of the exterior wall formed by the western
walls of Rooms nos. 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, was probably lined with finely
dressed stone blocks. Some of this stone facing was found in the
test trench dug in the corner between the northern wall of R.3 and
western wall of R.6.
The Vestibule (R.3) was constructed on a tetrapylon
principle. Of its four arched openings, the northern one was
blocked. The remaining three gave access to Rooms 2c and 5. The
eastern opening was cut in the western wall of R. 5 (since the
Vestibule was added to R. 5, it has no eastern wall of its own).
Since the secondary openings cut through R.5's western wall had
reduced its carrying strength considerably, the wall was doubled
from the inside and buttressed by a coffer-like mudbrick structure
filled with rubble. The western entrance was reinforced by two
mighty stone jambs. The northwestern corner was enclosed within
a mudbrick abutment and the incurved northern wall was
additionally buttressed from inside (Fig. 4). The construction of a
buttress against the southern wall reduced the span of the passage
giving access to Room 2a.
The Vestibule (R.3) was paved with roughly dressed stone
blocks. The western entrance was closed with a door made of four
palm logs tied together with ropes and connected by stretchers
(Fig. 3). A finely dressed stone was used as a door socket placed in
the southwestern corner of the vestibule.
The interior buttresses were inscribed with graffiti scratched
when the level of sand in the Vestibule reached the height of close
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(R.l, R.4, R.5) joining R.2 on the northern side was constructed
earlier (but after Unit R.6 + R.7 was raised). Thus, the suite of
rooms R.3 + R.2 was the latest extension of the building and was
apparently intended to facilitate inside communication. Prior to the
building of R.2, R.l was entered through the opening in its
northern wall. The western entrance to R.l was cut later, after R.2
had been erected.
The entire length of the exterior wall formed by the western
walls of Rooms nos. 1, 4, 5, 6, 8, was probably lined with finely
dressed stone blocks. Some of this stone facing was found in the
test trench dug in the corner between the northern wall of R.3 and
western wall of R.6.
The Vestibule (R.3) was constructed on a tetrapylon
principle. Of its four arched openings, the northern one was
blocked. The remaining three gave access to Rooms 2c and 5. The
eastern opening was cut in the western wall of R. 5 (since the
Vestibule was added to R. 5, it has no eastern wall of its own).
Since the secondary openings cut through R.5's western wall had
reduced its carrying strength considerably, the wall was doubled
from the inside and buttressed by a coffer-like mudbrick structure
filled with rubble. The western entrance was reinforced by two
mighty stone jambs. The northwestern corner was enclosed within
a mudbrick abutment and the incurved northern wall was
additionally buttressed from inside (Fig. 4). The construction of a
buttress against the southern wall reduced the span of the passage
giving access to Room 2a.
The Vestibule (R.3) was paved with roughly dressed stone
blocks. The western entrance was closed with a door made of four
palm logs tied together with ropes and connected by stretchers
(Fig. 3). A finely dressed stone was used as a door socket placed in
the southwestern corner of the vestibule.
The interior buttresses were inscribed with graffiti scratched
when the level of sand in the Vestibule reached the height of close
171