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Alexandria, Kom el-Dikka Season 2016
Alexandria, Kom el-Dikka Season 2016

Author(s): Grzegorz Majcherek
Subject(s): Archaeology, Ancient World, Islam studies, Present Times (2010 - today)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Kom el-Dikka; Islamic necropolis; conservation work; Roman mosaics;

Summary/Abstract: The PCMA expedition to Kom el-Dikka conducted fieldwork between March and July 2016, filling out the usual multiple-task agenda encompassing both conservation projects and archaeological excavation. The program of work was conditioned to a large extent by the pending completion of the first stage of the Kom el-Dikka Site Presentation Project (southern zone of the site). Top priority was given to preservation work, supplemented with limited excavation in the early Islamic necropolis. A vast collection of finds including coins, plasterwork, glass artifacts of different age (from Ptolemaic to early Islamic) originating from previous seasons of fieldwork continued to be documented and studied by a group of specialists. The appendix brings a brief report on the glass finds from area CV, stratigraphically from the level of the Lower Necropolis, but chronologically from the late Roman/early Byzantine period (5th–6th century AD).

  • Issue Year: 1/2017
  • Issue No: XXVI
  • Page Range: 37-58
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: English