QSAP: Dangeil 2018-19. Conservation challenges and an ever-expanding sacred landscape

Recent excavations and conservation conducted in the late Kushite temple complex at Dangeil over the course of the Qatar-Sudan Archaeological Project (2013-2019) have revealed many surprises and provided much information about this ancient edifice. Of note, work in the Amun temple’s peristyle court exposed the processional way through the building and part of the colonnade around a central kiosk. Within the court, the processional route was flanked by a total of twelve statue plinths. Numerous fragments of architectural elements and sandstone ram statues were discovered, the latter indicating that three ram statue pairs had been situated on either side of the kiosk on top of these pedestals. Pigments remaining on these fragments have provided clues as to the court’s original decorative appearance.