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Ancient Coins from the Warsaw University Institute of Archaeology Excavations at Ptolemais, Libya (2002-2004)

P. Jaworski

Archeologia > 2005 > 56 > 77-90

The article presents coin finds from the excavations carried out by the Warsaw University Institute of Archaeology in the 'Villa with a View' at Ptolemais, Libya, in 2002-2004. Included in the catalogue are 118 coins, all bronzes with the exception of one denarius of Severus Alexander. More than half of the coins were struck in Greek mints in Hellenistic and Roman times. The assemblage largely corresponds...

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Considerations of the wall paintings from the 3rd cent. AD in urban villa at Ptolemais (Cyrenaica)

J. Zelazowski

Archeologia > 2005 > 56 > 69-75

Excavations of the Warsaw University Institute of Archaeology in an urban villa at Ptolemais, Cyrenaica, yielded an interesting collection of wall paintings from the 3rd cent. AD. These new finds enrich our knowledge about painted decorations of houses in this part of the Roman empire. The wall paintings include mostly high quality imitations of marble plates, which partially bring to mind an opus...

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The Achilles Mosaic from the 'Villa with a View' in Ptolemais (Libya)

T. Mikocki

Archeologia > 2005 > 56 > 57-68

This is a publication of a fragmentary mosaic that originally adorned an upper-floor room of the 3rd cent. 'Villa with a View' in Ptolemais. Among hundreds of smaller pieces and loose tesserae found in the debris above the Mosaic of Dionysus in the triclinium, several scenes illustrating the myth of Achilles could be identified, including that of the unmasking of Achilles on Skyros and a group of...

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Novae - Castra Legionis, 2003-2005. Preliminary Report on the Excavations of the Warsaw University Archaeological Expedition

T. Sarnowski, L. Kovalevskaya, J. Kaniszewski

Archeologia > 2005 > 56 > 141-152

The three excavation campaigns covered in this interim report were concentrated on the front and rear parts of the legionary fortress at Novae, where in the last years an intensive destruction activity of local treasure hunters took place. Some of the robber pits left by this clandestine excavation were replaced by a series of regular rescue trenches in order to record the exposed architectural remains...

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Polish Excavations at Tell el-Farkha (Ghazala) in the Nile Delta. Preliminary Report 2002-2003

M. Chlodnicki, M. Cialowicz

Archeologia > 2004 > 55 > 47-74

The authors and contributors: Ablamowicz R., Debowska J., Jucha M., Kirkowski R., and Maczynska A. report on the 2002 and 2003, fieldworks carried out at Tell el-Farkha for two months each season. The main goal was to reach earlier layers at the Western and Central Koms as well as continue examination of graves from the cemetery previously discovered at the Eastern Kom. During these campaigns western...

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New Mosaics from Ptolemais in Libya

T. Mikocki

Archeologia > 2004 > 55 > 19-30

In December 2001, a Polish archaeological expedition from Warsaw University opened excavations at Ptolemais in the Cyrenaica. In the four field seasons (2001-2004) completed so far, the team has explored the central part of a richly decorated Roman villa, nicknamed Villa with a View. The main architectural stage of this complex and the relevant mural and mosaic floor decoration can be dated to Late...

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Archaeological Excavations in Marea, Egypt. Campaings 2002-2003

H. Szymanska, K. Babraj

Archeologia > 2004 > 55 > 119-130

During two campaigns 2002-2003 the Polish mission continued excavations in the complex of the 6th - early 8th century bath discovered in the two previous seasons. A well operated by a saqiyah from which water had been supplied to the bath has been cleared. A funerary chapel lying to the southwest of the bath was also entirely explored. The other objective of the excavations was the 6th century basilica,...

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Rhizon, 2001-2003. Preliminary Report on the Excavations of the Center for Archaeological Research - Novae, Warsaw University

P. Dyczek, V. Kowacevic, P. Lutovac, J. Martinovic, more

Archeologia > 2004 > 55 > 101-118

In 2001 Polish archaeological mission started excavations at Rhizon (now Risan), Montenegro, the ancient capital of Illyrian queen Teuta. Work concentrated in three sections of the town: at the entrance to the modern hospital, where a Roman villa with mosaic pavements was unearthed, in the location of Carine (another 3rd cent. BC Roman villa complex including a well-preserved bathroom), and near the...

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Novae - Western Sector (Principia), 2000-2002. Preliminary Report on the Excavations of the Warsaw University Archaeological Expedition

T. Sarnowski

Archeologia > 2003 > 54 > 65-75

This interim report covers three excavation campaigns (2000-2002) within the headquarters building (principia) in the central part of the Roman legionary fortress at Novae on the Lower Danube (Northern Bulgaria). Excavation was concentrated on the courtyard, the crosshall and the rear range of administrative rooms. The last stratigraphic observations made in Room Cz with a loess pit preceding construction...

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Jerzy Manteuffel's 'Excavation Diary in Edfu' from 1937

O. Bialostocka

Archeologia > 2003 > 54 > 77-85

The Archive of the Polish Academy of Sciences contains a long forgotten excavation diary of Professor Jerzy Manteuffel (1900-1954), the first Polish papyrologist who took part in excavation works in Egypt. The article is the first publication of Manteuffel's notes taken in the course of the first two weeks of French-Polish excavations in Edfu in 1937. It was possible to correlate the data found in...

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Ancient Coins from the Warsaw University Institute of Archaeology Excavations at Ptolemais, Libya (2002-2004)

Considerations of the wall paintings from the 3rd cent. AD in urban villa at Ptolemais (Cyrenaica)

The Achilles Mosaic from the 'Villa with a View' in Ptolemais (Libya)

Novae - Castra Legionis, 2003-2005. Preliminary Report on the Excavations of the Warsaw University Archaeological Expedition

Polish Excavations at Tell el-Farkha (Ghazala) in the Nile Delta. Preliminary Report 2002-2003

New Mosaics from Ptolemais in Libya

Archaeological Excavations in Marea, Egypt. Campaings 2002-2003

Rhizon, 2001-2003. Preliminary Report on the Excavations of the Center for Archaeological Research - Novae, Warsaw University

Novae - Western Sector (Principia), 2000-2002. Preliminary Report on the Excavations of the Warsaw University Archaeological Expedition

Jerzy Manteuffel's 'Excavation Diary in Edfu' from 1937

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