REMARKS ON THE TYPOLOGY OF ISLAMIC GRAVES FROM THE CEMETERIES ON KOM EL-DIKKA IN ALEXANDRIA Cover Image

REMARKS ON THE TYPOLOGY OF ISLAMIC GRAVES FROM THE CEMETERIES ON KOM EL-DIKKA IN ALEXANDRIA
REMARKS ON THE TYPOLOGY OF ISLAMIC GRAVES FROM THE CEMETERIES ON KOM EL-DIKKA IN ALEXANDRIA

Author(s): Emanuela Kulicka
Subject(s): Archaeology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Alexandria; Kom el-Dikka; Islamic burials; Lower/Middle/Upper Necropolis

Summary/Abstract: The article is a general characteristic of three Islamic graveyards, arbitrarily referred to as the Lower, Middle and Upper Necropolis (from aer the Arabic invasion through the 12th century), and presents a typology of graves developed on the basis of results of archaeological excavations carried out by a PCMA mission for the past half a century.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: XX
  • Page Range: 483-498
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English
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