ZAWYAT AL-BAWAB SOUTH OF ROSETTA IN LIGHT OF THE PAINTINGS OF DE PRANGEY AND RECENT DISCOVERIES, AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDY
Abstract
Given the researcher's sense of the importance of the French traveler, artist and photographer De Prangey, who is considered one of the most important pioneers in the art of photography, rather a pioneer of panoramic photography, he followed the path of this great artist and photographer, who is rightly considered the first archaeologist to document the archaeological sites of Rosetta, following the invention of the photographic camera, which he took Rosetta during his second trip to the East in 1842, in addition to revealing a number of paintings related to the doorman’s corner, which were published for the first time after being shown in some exhibitions in Europe and America, and published in some foreign studies.
The research deals with an archaeological study of the gatekeeper’s corner through the works of De Prangey, and the excavations carried out by Mahmoud Darwish[i], the discoverer of the site and its document, which was published in 1989, who was able through the excavations he carried out on this site, in addition to the special document with this Zawya, identify all its architectural components.
The three research axes are: Joseph PhilibertGirault De Prangey (1804-1892), Zawyat Al-Bawab in Girault De Prangey's paintings and Zawyat Al-Bawab through Mahmoud Darwish’s excavations
[i]Mahmoud Darwish, Egyptian archaeologist and professor of Islamic antiquities in the Department of Archeology at the Faculty of Arts, Minia University, worked as Director of the Archeology of Rosetta area from 1977 to 1991, when he obtained PHD of Islamic Archaeology, and headed the excavations and restoration missions in Rosetta area during this period, and he has a number of archaeological discoveries, including The doorman’s corner discovered in 1987. These excavations were published in a master’s thesis entitled: Buildings in Rosetta and their wooden artifacts in the Ottoman era, in 1991, and also published in Rosetta Encyclopedia, 2, Architectural Heritage, in 2017.
