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EGYPT
studentsfromtheKrakówUniversityof
TechnologyFacultyofArchitecture:Marta
Kulikowska,MarcinOstrowski,Katarzyna
RozmusandAndrzejKutiak.Teexhaus-
tivenessofthefollowingdescriptionsofthe
threepierswithinthePolishconcession
wasdeterminedbytheconditionofthe
piersandaccessibilityoftheremains.
JETTYI
PierIislocatedtotheeastoftheroad
crossingMariutLakeandisorientedmore
orlessnorthwest.Whenfirstdocumented,
itmeasured39mfromtheentrance
fromthequaytothelastpreservedpart
abovewaterlevel(30mofthisisingood
conditionandvisibleabovewater)and7m
acrossatthewidestpoint.
Ithassixcoursesofstoneblocks(ItoVI
countedfromthebottomup)[Fig.10].
Teuppercoursesneartheentranceto
thequayhavebeendestroyedandonlythe
lowerlayersofstoneshavesurvivedcloseto
thewaterlevel.Tetypicalsizeofblocks
ofstoneinlayerVIontopwas60cmby
110cm;inlayerVthestonesweremore
elongatedinshape,measuringapproxi-
mately40cmby100cm.InlayersIVand
IIIthestonesshowedgreaterdiversity
bothinsizeandshape.Testonesinall
layerswerearrangedinaregularpattern.
JETTYII
Telengthofthisjettyfromwhereitmeets
thequaytothefarthesttipvisibleabove
thewatertableis108.5m[Fig.12].Below
thelakesurfacethewidthofthepieris
aconstantmoreorless5.80m,whileabove
thewateritis4.55matthebaseandup
to5.50minotherparts.Testructureof
thepierrevealstwophasesofconstruc-
tion.Tefirst90m,builtinthefirstphase,
Fig.11.SiteofMareawiththefourjettiesmarked
(DrawingM.Niepokólczycki,D.Tarara)
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