{"title":"Notes on the Tauorga Project","authors":"Heinrich Speetzen","doi":"10.1017/S026371890000042X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S026371890000042X","url":null,"abstract":"From the 12 April 1974 to the 26 April 1974 the Libyan Society made it possible for me to visit the new irrigation project in Tauorga, Libya. The visit was a great help in completing a vital part of my Ph.D. research. It gave me the opportunity of studying the marketing situation for the planned output of the project, the working ability of the settlers, who are at present living in the decaying Tauorga oasis, and the expansion possibilities for agricultural production. I was also able to collect a great deal of statistical and peripheral information which has given me a much better understanding of the specific problems inherent in the project. The main results of my work in Libya are summarized below. The basis for the income of the settlers in the Tauorga project is a 10 ha farm for each of the 300 families to be settled. The cropping pattern of each of these farms is 3·8 ha cereals, 2·2 ha beets, 2·0 ha alfalfa and 2·0 ha vegetables. Further, the farmers will keep on each farm 2 cows, 1 ox, 2 donkeys, 5 sheep and 10 to 15 fowls. The labour demand for these agricultural activities per farm per annum is estimated to be as follows: The above table shows clearly that for a daily working time of 8 hours, at least 4 permanent full-time labourers will be required. Increasing the working day to 12 in order to reduce the number of labourers to 3, becomes unrealistic since the labourers would migrate to easier jobs, which are available in the urban centres. But it is unlikely that the 8-member families will have 4 able bodied workmen and much of the farmwork will probably have to be done by hired labour.","PeriodicalId":165470,"journal":{"name":"Annual report - Society for Libyan Studies","volume":"119 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133886933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Roman Legionary Veteran at Teucheira","authors":"J. Reynolds","doi":"10.1017/S0263718900008748","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263718900008748","url":null,"abstract":"Among the inscriptions of ancient Teucheira copied by R. Pacho during his visit to Cyrenaica in 1825 is a Latin funerary text for a Roman legionary veteran named M. Aurelius Apollonius. Traditionally his legion has been interpreted as XV Apollinaris – reasonably enough on the basis of Pacho's drawing. W. Rossberg, who was the first to discuss the text, recalled that a veteran might well have come to Cyrenaica as one of the colonists settled there by Hadrian after the Jewish Revolt of A.D.115/7; and when it became known that XV Apollinaris was in fact one of the legions from which those colonists were drawn the idea was, rightly, revived by S. Applebaum. It must, however, be rejected, for rediscovery of the inscription shows that it has been misread, that the legion is II Adiutrix and the veteran probably a Cyrenaican himself. The inscription is to be found in Quarry IX to the east of the ancient city and has been for many years masked by a palm tree. It occupies an approximately rectangular area above the door of a rock-cut tomb in the west wall of the quarry. Its letters are 0.035–0.04 m. high in lines 1–4, 0.05 in line 5, and are very unevenly spaced throughout since the cutter had to avoid holes in the surface of the stone. There are superscript bars above the abbreviations in lines 1, 2 and the figure in line 3.","PeriodicalId":165470,"journal":{"name":"Annual report - Society for Libyan Studies","volume":"115 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133290797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LIS volume 5 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s026371890000039x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s026371890000039x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":165470,"journal":{"name":"Annual report - Society for Libyan Studies","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126658053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Sidi Krebish graffiti: an interim note","authors":"J. Reynolds","doi":"10.1017/S0263718900000558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263718900000558","url":null,"abstract":"In two rooms of the courtyard house (no. H) on the Sidi Krebish site excavated by this society, the wall plaster carried a large number of graffiti. Obviously this must mean that the rooms were open to public use in some sense at the time of writing and, as will be seen, there are grounds in the texts for suggesting that the house was then used as a restaurant or more probably a hotel.","PeriodicalId":165470,"journal":{"name":"Annual report - Society for Libyan Studies","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126967370","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Library Accessions","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/S0263718900009134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263718900009134","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":165470,"journal":{"name":"Annual report - Society for Libyan Studies","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115343471","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sheila C. Gibson, John H. Little, John B. Ward-Perkins
{"title":"Ptolemais 1978","authors":"Sheila C. Gibson, John H. Little, John B. Ward-Perkins","doi":"10.1017/s0263718900008712","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0263718900008712","url":null,"abstract":"One of the last areas in Cyrenaica in which Richard Goodchild was active during his long and fruitful official association with the Department of Antiquities was Tolmeita, the ancient Ptolemais. The Italian excavations here had been interrupted in 1942, and it was not until 1954 that the Oriental Institute of Chicago, under the direction of Carl Kraeling, undertook a short, exploratory season's work, followed u p b y three full seasons of excavation in 1956— 58. Kraeling's publication of this work (Kraeling, 1962) will long remain the basis for any further research at Tolmeita. It was in this context that Goodchild and the Department completed the excavation of the small, theatre-like building which has been variously identified as an odeion, for intimate theatrical spectacles, and as a bouleuterion, or meeting place of the city council, and an account of this work was included in Kraeling's volume. This was followed in 1 9 5 6 5 7 by an extension eastwards of the Italian excavation of the \"Street of the Monuments\", the broad avenue which constituted the principal east-west traffic artery of the classical city, as well as by the clearance of a substantial stretch of the \"East Avenue\", the easternmost of the two broad, parallel avenues which constituted the twin north-south axis of the Hellenistic street lay-out. In all nearly 500 m. of the East Avenue were uncovered, running northwards from the Palazzo delle Colonne towards the sea. At the intersection of the East Avenue with the Street of the Monuments the excavators found the shattered remains of a tetrastyle monument of a type familiar in late antiquity in the cities of the eastern provinces, such as Ephesus, Gerasa and Bostra.","PeriodicalId":165470,"journal":{"name":"Annual report - Society for Libyan Studies","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115378468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Journey of al-Tijānī to Tripoli at the beginning of the fourteenth century A.D./eighth century A.H.","authors":"M. Brett","doi":"10.1017/S0263718900008992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263718900008992","url":null,"abstract":"Al-Tijānī was a highly-placed scholar and man of letters at Tunis. At the beginning of the fourteenth century A.D., the eighth century A.H., he made a devious and slow journey from Tunis to a point between Tripoli and Misurata, returning much more directly. On the way he employed his considerable leisure to correspond with his acquaintances, often in verse, and still more to collect, by diligent inquiry, the material for the account which he wrote of his adventure. The journey itself became the thread upon which were strung descriptions of each place he visited, first the topography, then the history, the men of religion, and finally the poets illustrated by generous quotations from their works. In this way he managed to provide a great deal of information, at first and second hand, about the route and its interest, contemporary and antiquarian, for an educated gentleman with a taste for literature and literary composition. Some of this information is known to us from other sources; al-Tijānī belonged to the classical Arab literary tradition of the Maghrib as it grew by constant repetition. Some of it is new, because the author drew on works which have not otherwise survived. The rest is al-Tijānī's own contribution, his invaluable tale of what he did and saw. The resultant work, known as the Riḥla or Journey of al-Tijānī, was published in a French translation by Alphonse Rousseau in the Journal Asiatique in 1852–3; this excluded the poetry and a great deal of anecdote, which the translator considered to be ‘sujet de nul intérêt’. The translation itself is not always accurate; nevertheless it is valuable as a guide. The full Arabic text was published at Tunis in 1927, and in a critical edition in 1958.","PeriodicalId":165470,"journal":{"name":"Annual report - Society for Libyan Studies","volume":"132 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115983610","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"List of New Corporate Members","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/S0263718900000674","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0263718900000674","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":165470,"journal":{"name":"Annual report - Society for Libyan Studies","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116150993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Accounts","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/s0263718900000479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0263718900000479","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":165470,"journal":{"name":"Annual report - Society for Libyan Studies","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114920299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}