Tell el makhzan : etude archeologique sur un lieu de pelerinage dans la partie orientale de la ville de peluse au nord sinai
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Abstract EN:
Tell el-makhazan is the modem name of the oriental suburb of the ancient pelusium, today tell elfarama. These ancient ruins are lying at 30 km north -east to el qantara and 2 km away of mediterranean sea coast in north sinai. From 1988 to 1998 the egyptian supreme council of antiques diligent eight sites of excavations and studies to tell el-makhazan. The tell essentially received some christian and funeral constructions during the belated antique and the middle ages notably a bigger churches of the sinai. The monumental character of the building is reinforced with the presence forward atrium of the facade, that composed of three porches, the oriental part received a set of inhumations, oriented at the east-west. The basilica is composed of three naves, which the main is larger two times than that each of others. The martyrium occupies the southeasterly angle of the building, it constructs on two levels, it composed of three apses oriented towards the east whose western part surmounts bases of a transverse passageway. The sale of the martyrium whose its ground is covered with tile of aliki marble, situated as same level as of the ground of the basilica, overhang and cover funeral crypt entirely. Ancient texts reflected the importance of this place on the religious plan. Among these texts, we mention those of st-epimaque, and also the correspondences of sanit-isidore of pelusium.
Abstract FR:
Tell el-makhzan est le nom moderne du faubourg oriental de l'ancienne peluse, aujourd'hui tell el-farama. Ces ruines se trouvent a 30 km au nord-est d'el-qantara et 2 km de la cote mediterraneenne au nord sinai. De 1988 a 1998, le conseil supreme des antiquites de l'egypte a diligente 8 campagnes de fouilles et d'etudes a tell el-makhzan. Le tell a recu essentiellement des constructions religieuses et funeraire chretiennes durant l'antiquite tardive et le haut moyen age, notamment l'une des plus grandes eglises du sinai. Le caractere monumental de l'edifice est renforce par la presence en avant de la facade d'un atrium compose de trois portiques, la partie oriental a recu une serie d'inhumation, orientees est-ouest. La basilique elle-meme se compose de trois nefs, dont la principale est deux fois plus large que chacune des deux autres. Cette nef centrale est encadree par neuf colonnes de chaque cote. Un martyrium occupe l'angle sud-est du batiment, il construit sur deux niveaux, se compose de trois absides orientees vers l'est dont la partie occidentale surmonte les soubassements d'un couloir transversal. La salle du martyrium dont le sol est pave en dalle de marbre d'aliki, situe au meme niveau que le sol de la basilique surplomb et couvre entierement la crypte funeraire. Les textes anciens refletent l'importance de ce lieu. Parmi ces textes, nous citons ceux de saint epimaque ainsi que les correspondances de saint isidore de peluse.