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Le Sanctuaire osirien de Douch. Travaux de l'Ifao dans le secteur du temple en pierre (1976-1994). DFIFAO 51. beaux arts Many questions about architecture andThe Douch site had never been excavated when Serge Sauneron, director of the IFAO, began work there in 1976 to remove sand from the area of the Early Roman Empire temple. Before reaching its paved floors, the excavations uncovered several levels of Late Roman occupation. These campaigns and those that followed, up to 1994, revealed the existence of buildings predating the Roman period, such as a Ptolemaic brick sanctuary beneath the temple, as well as