The Osirian Sanctuary of Duch. IFAO works in the stone temple area (1976-1994). DFIFAO 51.
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The Osirian Sanctuary of Duch. IFAO works in the stone temple area (1976-1994). DFIFAO 51.

IFAO
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N° d'inventaire 23049
Format 24.5 x 33
Détails 304 p., publisher's hardcover.
Publication Cairo, 2020
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782724707328

The Douch site had never been excavated when Serge Sauneron, director of the IFAO, began work there in 1976 to remove sand from the area of the Early Roman Empire temple. Before reaching its paved floors, the excavations uncovered several levels of Late Roman occupation. These campaigns and those that followed, up to 1994, revealed the existence of buildings predating the Roman period, such as a Ptolemaic brick sanctuary beneath the temple, as well as other even older buildings, dating back to the Persian period or even beyond. The history of the archaeological work is followed by six chapters on the architecture of the buildings in the area: the enclosures and their gates, the courtyards and their layout, the temple and its columned porch, and the adjoining chapel linked to a fault in the ground, probably a place of primitive worship. The text is abundantly illustrated with plans, sections, and elevations. The examination of construction details has made it possible to establish the chronological sequence of the buildings, to explain anomalies, and to restore destroyed parts. The dating of the main brick buildings and their alterations is due to Michel Wuttmann, who, from 2007 to 2011, had plants extracted from the walls sampled and analyzed by radiocarbon. These new chronological markers allow us to propose, in the last chapter, reconstructions in plan and perspective of the successive states of the sanctuary, from the Persian period to the Late Roman Empire.

The Douch site had never been excavated when Serge Sauneron, director of the IFAO, began work there in 1976 to remove sand from the area of the Early Roman Empire temple. Before reaching its paved floors, the excavations uncovered several levels of Late Roman occupation. These campaigns and those that followed, up to 1994, revealed the existence of buildings predating the Roman period, such as a Ptolemaic brick sanctuary beneath the temple, as well as other even older buildings, dating back to the Persian period or even beyond. The history of the archaeological work is followed by six chapters on the architecture of the buildings in the area: the enclosures and their gates, the courtyards and their layout, the temple and its columned porch, and the adjoining chapel linked to a fault in the ground, probably a place of primitive worship. The text is abundantly illustrated with plans, sections, and elevations. The examination of construction details has made it possible to establish the chronological sequence of the buildings, to explain anomalies, and to restore destroyed parts. The dating of the main brick buildings and their alterations is due to Michel Wuttmann, who, from 2007 to 2011, had plants extracted from the walls sampled and analyzed by radiocarbon. These new chronological markers allow us to propose, in the last chapter, reconstructions in plan and perspective of the successive states of the sanctuary, from the Persian period to the Late Roman Empire.