The book deals with two ecclesiastical palaces. They were excavated by the Egyptian antiquities
service in the years 1948 49 and they are dated according to the sources to the end of the late
antiquity (ca. A.D. 700). They belong thus to the few architectural monuments which beside some
churches came down to us. The two palaces of Hilwan represent thus an important contribution to
our knowledge of the late antique architecture of Egypt a period of which until now only a few
churches are known.
