Publications of the Society for Libyan Studies

The Archaeology of Fazzan. Volume 1, Synthesis

D. J. Mattingly, C. M. Daniels, J. N. Dore, D. Edwards, J. Hawthorne
Edited by D. J. Mattingly. 2003

‘An extraordinary civilisation emerged on the very margins of the Classical world in the remote Libyan desert. This is a vital study of a society at the crossroads between the Mediterranean and continental Africa.’ (Professor Michael Fulford, University of Reading)

‘The Garamantes have emerged from the shadows. This study of the Fazzan from remotest antiquity to the present day is striking for the extent and range of the enquiry, the meticulousness of its documentation, and the clarity of its exposition. The completed volumes will immediately become the standard work on the region, and seem unlikely ever to be superseded.’ (Professor Roger Wilson, University of Nottingham)

xxvi, 414 pp., 460 figs (many colour). 31 tables, Arabic summary.

ISBN 190097 1003

£50 (members £40) plus postage £8.25 (UK); £9.80 (Europe); £12.80 (World Wide).

Christian Monuments of Cyrenaica

J. B. Ward-Perkins and R. G. Goodchild
Edited by J. M. Reynolds. 2003.

Christian Monuments of Cyrenaica publishes archaeological studies undertaken between 1953 and 1971 by the late J. B. Ward-Perkins (d. 1981) and the late R. G. Goodchild (d. 1968). It presents Ward-Perkins accounts (mostly left in advanced draft form) of 44 monuments, 35 of them certainly churches, together with plans of each made by professional architects after survey on the ground, drawings of some details and a considerable number of photographs, together with a draft overview of the buildings techniques used. Colleagues have provided introductory notes on other major features of the buildings and drawn attention to some of the problems that they raise. They have also added a brief account of other Christian buildings reported since Ward-Perkins' last visit to Cyrenaica, both in Cyrenaica itself, the late antique province of Libya Superior, and in that area of the Western Desert which formed the closely-related province of Libya Inferior.

The detailed evidence collected here represents a basis for the study of late antique and early Byzantine Cyrenaica of a quality and extent that has never been available before; and is all the more important because time and chance have now damaged some of that evidence. It also gives a quite up-to-date, although very summary account of new evidence awaiting serious study; which, we may hope, will lead to further advances in our understanding of the late antique and early Byzantine periods.

500 pp., 375 illus., 2 maps, index, ISBN 1-900971-01-1.

£50 (members £45) plus postage £8.25 (UK); £12.80 (overseas).

Farming the Desert. The UNESCO Libyan Valleys Archaeological Survey

Graeme Barker, David Gilbertson, Barri Jones and David Mattingly. 1996.

The desert margins of North Africa are extremely rich in archaeological ruins of the Roman period, evidence of dense settlement 2,000 years ago in what are now arid and hostile environments. Historians, geographers and archaeologists have long debated the significance of these sites, explaining the 'Greening of the Desert' variously in terms of environmental change, colonization, external market forces or combinations of factors. The debate so far has been characterized by the lack of scientific data from any one region concerning, on the one hand, the nature of settlement, society and land-use and, on the other, the contemporary climate and environment; this has made it impossible to compare rigorously the strengths and weaknesses of the alternative theories.

The two volumes of Farming the Desert present the results of the alternative approach taken by the UNESCO Libyan Valleys Archaeological Survey: a detailed inter-disciplinary study by archaeologists, geographers and historians of a single region, i.e. the basins of the Wadis Sofeggin and ZemZem in Tripolitania, northwest Libya. The project's methodologies for studying the archaeology of arid-zone agriculture have been recognized internationally, and the results of their application to the study area have transformed our understanding of how the desert margins of North Africa were farmed in antiquity, with important implications for modern agricultural planning.

'A particular triumph. It marshals a wide variety of skills and techniques, transforms our understanding of ancient pre-desert farming, and is as vital a contribution to modern needs as it is to scholarship.' (Tim Potter, British Museum)

Volume One: Synthesis.

Edited by Graeme Barker.

403 pp, numerous illustrations.

ISBN 0-9508363-8-9

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Volume Two: Gazetteer and Pottery

Edited by David Mattingly.

394 pp, numerous illustrations.

ISBN 0-9508363-9-7

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The Severan Buildings of Lepcis Magna

by J. B. Ward-Perkins. Edited by P. M. Kenrick with drawings by R. Kronenburg. 1993.

The building programme begun in the A.D. 190s by the Roman emperor Septimius Severus at his home city of Lepcis Magna is widely recognised as the grandest project of its kind in the ancient world. This architectural study by the late J. B. Ward-Perkins provides a full description and analysis of the principal monuments of the Severan programme, namely the Forum, Basilica, Colonnaded Street and Nymphaeum. Copiously and handsomely illustrated, the corpus is accompanied by extended discussion which includes consideration of the remarkable evidence presented by these monuments for the organisation of the construction of major Roman public buildings. This book is based on several seasons of research at Lepcis by a team led by Ward-Perkins, whose substantial draft text and drawings have been prepared for publication by Philp Kenrick and Robert Kronenburg, with support from the Society for Libyan Studies.

This publication will be of interest to all students of classical antiquity and to architectural historians.

A4 format, 140 pp. 45 plates, 42 figures, Arabic summary.

ISBN 0-9508363-6-2

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Excavations at Sabratha, Volume II. The Finds, Part 1. The Amphorae, Coarse Pottery and Building Materials

by John Dore and Nina Keay; contributions by H. Dodge, D. P. S. Peacock and R. H. Seager-Smith.

This is the first report on the finds from K. Kenyon's and J. B. Ward-Perkins' excavations at Sabratha from 1948-1951, and contains full discussion and catalogues. This volume constitutes a landmark in the study of Punic and Roman pottery from Sabratha and Tripolitania.

A4 format, 298 pages, 72 figures, Arabic summary.

ISBN 0-9508363-5-4

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Excavations at Sabratha, Volume II, Part 2. The Fine Wares

Edited by M. G. Fulford and R. Tomber. 1994.

Catalogue and discussion of the fine pottery from K. Kenyon's and J. B. Ward-Perkins' excavations at Sabratha from 1948-1951. An indispensable aid to all archaeologists working on classical Mediterranean sites.

A4 format, 224 pp. 48 illustrations.

ISBN 0-9508363-7-0

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Sidi Khrebish

Edited by J. A. Lloyd. 1976-

The excavations sponsored by the Society for Libyan Studies at Sidi Khrebish (Benghazi) have provided a full account of the Greek settlement and later Roman occupation of the city of Berenice. The published volumes provide the most significant interdisciplinary documentation of the archaeology of an urban site in North Africa, on a scale comparable to Carthage.

Volume I: The main site report (by J. A. Lloyd) and reports on the inscriptions (J. M. Reynolds), coins (R. Reece), architectural elements (F. Sear), and analysis of dated deposits (P. M. Kenrick).

Volume II: Amphoras and Plain Wares (J. A. Riley). Full discussion, supported by quantification and catalogue, of the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine amphoras and coarse pottery from Berenice, together with early Islamic fine and plain wares (more than 1200 forms). The volume also contains reports on economic life at Berenice (G. Barker), and sculpture and terracottas (A. Bonnano).
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Volume III: Part 1: The Fine Pottery (P. M. Kenrick) includes a detailed type series of the forms recorded in some 38 major categories of fine ware, spanning a period from the third century B.C. to the seventh century A.D. (more than 800 catalogued forms). Black-glazed wares, terra sigillata and other categories are documented from sources as far afield as Syria, the Black Sea and Gaul, providing important new evidence for trade patterns in the Mediterranean.

Volume III: Part 2: The Lamps (D. Bailey) consists of a catalogue and discussion of the many thousands of lamps and lamp-sherds recorded, of which over 1200 are illustrated. The evidence of a substantial, but derivative, local lamp industry may be compared with the huge volume of imports from Africa, Tripolitania, Greece, Crete and Asia Minor.

*NEW* :
Volume IV: Part 1: The Mosaics (D. Michaelides) presents a handsomely illustrated catalogue of 32 mosaic floors, one opus sectile pavement and one emblema known from Berenice.

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Ghirza: A Libyan Settlement in the Roman Period

by O. Brogan and D. J. Smith. 1984.

This volume reports one of the most important sites in the Tripolitanian hinterland. It contains detailed studies of the many buildings of the settlement (including a pagan temple) and its cemeteries. Particular attention is devoted to the monumental tombs for which the site is justly famous. Specialists' finds reports cover Roman pottery and lamps, coins, glass, Latin and Libyan inscriptions and altars, Islamic pottery, coins and mirror boxes, skeletal remains, wood and charcoal samples, botanical remains and textiles.

330 pp. 172 black and white plates.

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Libya: Research in Archaeology, Environment, History and Society, 1969-1989. (Libyan Studies 20)

Edited by D. J. Mattingly and J. A. Lloyd. 1989.

A retrospective of twenty years study of Libyan topics by an international team of scholars. Twenty-one papers on geology, prehistory, Classical and Islamic archaeology and art, Medieval and Ottoman history, Libya's water and oil resources and modern political geography.

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ISBN 0-9508363-4-6

Casebound, 267 pp. (Also available in paperback as Libyan Studies 20)

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Cyrenaican Archaeology: An International Colloquium (Libyan Studies 25)

Edited by J. M. Reynolds. 1994.

24 papers given by international specialists on various aspects of the archaeology of Cyrenaica at a colloquium held in Cambridge in 1993.

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Libyan Studies: Select Papers of the late R. G. Goodchild

Edited by J. M. Reynolds. 1976.

Richard Goodchild , Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Provinces at London University, was for eleven years a Controller of Antiquities in Libya. This volume brings together his most important articles on the archaeology and history of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, including a popular but scholarly history of the site of Cyrene.

ISBN 0236 17680 3

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Cyrenaica in Antiquity

Edited by G. Barker, J. A. Lloyd and J. M. Reynolds. 1985.

35 contributions to an international colloquium cover the topics: Towns and Buildings, Rural Settlement and Agriculture, Trade and Manufacture, and History, Archaeology and Society.

ISBN 086054 303 X

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Town and Country in Roman Tripolitania

Edited by D. J. Buck and D. J. Mattingly. 1985.

18 papers by specialists covering a very wide range of topics from earliest settlement to art and inscriptions.

ISBN 0-86054-350-1

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Back issues of Libyan Studies are also available. *SPECIAL OFFER*: A complete set of Vols 1-30 may be purchased at a reduced price of £200, representing a saving of £250.

Volumes 30-34 £25 each (members £20 each).

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