Jiyeh (Porphyreon) (Lebanon)
Dates of work: 30 August–2 October 2011
Team:
Director: Dr. Tomasz Waliszewski (Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw)
Archaeologists: Mariusz Gwiazda, Zofia Kowarska, Szymon Lenarczyk (all PhD candidates, Antiquity of Southeastern Europe Research Centre, University of Warsaw)
Ceramologists: Dr. Krzysztof Domżalski (Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences), Urszula Wicenciak (PhD candidate, Antiquity of Southeastern Europe Research Centre, University of Warsaw)
Glass specialist: Marcin Wagner (Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw)
Metal specialist: Agnieszka Szulc-Kajak (independent)
Documentalist: Magdalena Makowska (independent)
Student-trainee: Joanna Pazio (Institute of Archaeology, University of Warsaw)
In view of the political tensions in the region, the campaign of 2011 was planned as a study season focusing on materials from the previous few excavation seasons in Jiyeh (Porphyreon). The documented and analyzed finds included metal objects from the site stored in the National Museum in Beirut and the Beiteddine Palace Museum, fine and coarse ware, oil lamps and glass and stone objects. The chronological and functional aspects of the architectural relics excavated in Jiyeh were better understood in this respect.
[Text: PAM]