A mission from the Polish Centre of Mediterranean
Archaeology of Warsaw University unearthed a
decorated clay vessel from a room in a monastic
building at the Deir Malak Gubrail monastery in Naqlun,
a site in the Fayum. The vessel is of Aswan production
and contained a hoard of coins.
The hoard consists of 18 gold coins and 62 fragments
of coins, all of them provisionally dated to the Abbasid
period (AD 750-1258). Under the charred remains of
a collapsed wall, archaeologists also uncovered a
chandelier and a well-preserved oil lamp, both made of
bronze.
Wlodzimierz Godlewski, the head of the Polish mission,
said that the monastic complex of Naqlun was built in
the early 6th century AD. The area excavated this season
dated to the 7th century AD, and was destroyed by a
massive fire around the end of the 8th or the beginning
of the 9th century AD.
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