The Kushite temple in Soniyat after the 2016 season

• Authors: Drzewiecki, Mariusz

Abstracts

EN

Archaeological fieldwork in the Kushite temple in Soniyat (Tergis 40) was conducted from 1997 to 2001 with an additional short season in 2013. A team supervised by Bogdan Żurawski returned to the site in 2016 to continue the excavation of the southern section of the complex. Remains of substantial mud-brick architecture were discovered together with large quantities of small finds (potsherds and objects made of metal, stone and faience) and faunal remains. A compact layer of Nile alluvial deposits, about 0.10 m thick, covering the remains represented evidence most probably of a flood. A single stone column was visible at that level. The spatial distribution of the discovered architectural features matches the temple orientation; they can be interpreted as the remains of a pylon with an entrance flanked by columns

Keywords

EN

Kushite temple; Kushite architecture; Meroitic period; Napatan period; Soniyat; Sudan; Middle Nile; archaeological excavations

• Publisher: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
• Journal: Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 26(1)
• Pages: 326-336

Dates

published

2018-07-09

Contributors

author

Drzewiecki, Mariusz

Identifiers

DOI

10.5604/01.3001.0012.1792