 Unfinished mosque in Qaṣr Bārīs | ||
| Qaṣr Bārīs · قصر باريس | ||
| Governorate | New valley | |
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| Residents | about 600 | |
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| height | 72 m | |
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Qasr Baris (Arabic:قصر باريس, Qaṣr Bārīs, „Bārīs fortress") or short el-Qasr (Arabic:القصر, al-Qaṣr, „the fortress“) Is a hamlet in the extreme south of the egyptian Sink el-Chārga in the Western desert, a good 5 kilometers south of el-Maks el-Qiblī located. In the east are the remains of a Roman adobe building. Archaeologists should be primarily interested in this site.
background
History of the place
The local spring and the fields around it have been known for a long time. However, the village was only established during the time of the Egyptian President Gamal Abd el-Nasser (1918–1970) created in the 1960s. Today the village has around 60 houses, in which around 600 people live.
The hamlet includes a grocery store, a bakery, an unfinished mosque, and a primary and secondary school. These schools are also used by the children of the surrounding hamlets such as el-Maks.
The houses have their own water tanks. The water is brought here from el-Maks in tank trucks twice a day.
Research history
Jean Gascou, who visited the ruins in 1978, reported that the broken pieces that were in the area of the fortress could be used to date the fortress to Roman times.
1983 excavations took place here Egyptian Antiquities Organization in the course of which 150 graves from Ottoman times were uncovered.
getting there
Getting there is easy because the hamlet is located on an asphalt road. You can get to Qaṣr Bārīs by buses and minibuses. Most buses end in Bārīs, sometimes they go on to Qaṣr Bārīs. In Bārīs there are minibuses that go to Qaṣr Bārīs.
mobility
The ancient adobe building is on the east side of the street. You have to walk through the gardens.
Qaṣr Bārīs is the southernmost of the villages in the El-Chārga Depression. There is almost nothing left until the Sudanese border. That is why there is a military checkpoint about 1 kilometer south of the hamlet. A special permit from the military is required to continue south.
Tourist Attractions
There is one in the southeast of the village 1 Roman adobe ruin(24 ° 30 ′ 25 ″ N.30 ° 37 ′ 4 ″ E). You can reach it from the road at the southern end of the hamlet by walking almost 300 meters in an easterly direction through the gardens. The ruins are on a small hill, which is littered with mud-brick rubble. Today only the southern parts of the building are preserved. The north wall has collapsed.
The building once measured about 30 meters from north to south and 20 meters on its south side. This is where his entrance was probably also. Even today it is still about 9 meters. It probably had at least three floors. Jean Gascou and Guy Wagner, who visited the ruin in 1978, are certain that the building dates back to Roman times. But they could not name the purpose. They believed it no Was a military fortress. In the south-east there was a pottery furnace with slag and numerous broken glass.
There is one on the east side of the road to Bārīs 2 modern mosque(24 ° 30 ′ 33 ″ N.30 ° 36 '53 "E.)which, however, remained unfinished because its founder died before it was completed.
Kitchen and accommodation
Usually, people choose accommodation and a restaurant in town el-Chārga. There is a seasonally used tent camp northwest of Qaṣr Dūsch.
literature
- : Deux voyages archéologiques dans l’oasis de Khargeh. In:Bulletin de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale (BIFAO), vol.79 (1979), Pp. 1–20, panels I-VI, especially p. 9, panel III.A.
