Oasis Forts of <i>Legio III Augusta</i> on the Routes to the Fezzan

Goodchild, R. G.

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“…For the recently measured fortlet of Tisavar/Ksar Rhilane there is a reassessment of the gate with portcullis slot for cataracta and the interior buildings, as well as of the size of the fortlet and the commanding praepositus of the garrison (probably a principalis); furthermore there is a reconstruction of the eastern curtain wall and its gate-tower (Mackensen 2010b). The latter published improved plans of the Severan oasis forts at Bu Ngem and Gheriat el-Garbia (Goodchild 1954). J.…”

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“…There it denotes a Roman stretch of road covering a distance of roughly 600 miles. The new building programme instigated by the Emperor Septimius Severus can not only be proven by epigraphic evidence but also through archaeology (Daniels 1987, 252-254;Goodchild 1954;Mattingly 1995, 80-89). The western and particularly the central sector of this frontier consist of a limes in the sense of a border road (cf.…”

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New fieldwork at the Severan fort ofMyd(…)/Gheriat el-Garbia on thelimes Tripolitanus

Mackensen¹

2012

Libyan stud.

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The most outstanding oasis fort of the limes Tripolitanus, Myd(---)/Gheriat el-Garbia, saw the deployment of various military units between AD 198/201 and 275/80. Archaeological research in 2009/10 focussed on the fortifications, particularly the main and rear gates, the northern angle tower and interval towers 2 and 4 as well as the curtain wall at its south corner. The towers of the porta praetoria have been reconstructed theoretically with three storeys, at an overall height of c. 12.5 m. Of the headquarters building two of the rear rooms, including the shrine, were excavated. A monumental inscription of a length of c. 9.0 m and corresponding architectural elements suggest the existence of a groma building. Completely unexpected by archaeologists as well as ancient historians and rather spectacular is a late Roman reoccupation of the military site: after a hiatus of c. 80+ years building activities were undertaken within the fort and repairs and the blocking of the main gate could be observed and probably attributed to the deployment of a unit of limitanei between AD 360/80 (at the earliest) and 430/55. The reoccupied fort might be identified with the so far unknown castra Madensia, where the milites munifices were garrisoned (Notitia Dignitatum Occ. 31, 30). Further evidence of occupation, possibly of a Libyan chieftain and his tribe, has been assigned to the second half of the fifth century, continuing thereafter until AD 540+.

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New fieldwork at the Severan fort ofMyd(…)/Gheriat el-Garbia on thelimes Tripolitanus

Mackensen¹

2012

Libyan stud.

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“…The epigraphic text is flanked by two Victoriae , facing one another, holding one wreath between them, exactly as in the Theodosian bronze coins VICTORIA AVGGG, minted in the years 383–387 in Rome and Aquileia ( LRBC II, 62 and 68, nos 782–93, 1091–94) and well diffused in Tripolitania . Similar Victoriae (this time each holding a wreath and a palm branch) decorated the keystone of the tomb North B at Ghirza (Brogan and Smith 1984, 136, 216–17, pls 60a, 61a), but also the north gate of the Gheriat el-Gharbia fort (Goodchild 1954a, 66; Mackensen 2012) and the obelisk tomb of Wadi Taghiggia.…”

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Munzi¹,

Schirru

Tantillo

2014

Libyan Stud

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The neuter substantivecentenariumappears in a series of documents to designate a particular type of building. The etymology and precise meaning of this word have long been debated by scholars, who have proposed a wide range of explanations, none of which appears to be entirely satisfactory. In this paper, we put forward a different solution, taking into account textual, archaeological and linguistic evidence. In our opinion, the wordcentenariumcomes fromcentenum, which means a kind of a cereal; thus,centenariumindicates a ‘fortified grain-house’. It seems probable that originalcentenariawere military structures of varying shape and size, first created in the third century and then spreading in the Tetrarchic period. They appear to be distinctive of the African provinces, from which comes most of the evidence, but one cannot exclude that the same name was applied to similar structures in other parts of the Empire (such as in the Iberian Peninsula, for instance). The militarycentenariawere later imitated by private landlords – maybe even indigenous chieftains in charge of the defence of sectors of the frontier – who transferred the name to their unofficial or para-official defensive structures. This process of emulation was already advanced in Constantinian age.

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“…As such, they set a model now emulated in north Africa, above all at Carthage, but also at places like Setif and Cherchel, both in Algeria (Mattingly and Hitchner, 1995), the last excavated by Potter (Benseddik and Potter, 1993), very much at Ward-Perkins's behest. Additionally, a landscape tradition, strongly linked to the British School at Rome, developed in North Africa (Goodchild, 1954;Oates, 1954). The importance of aerial photography strengthened, but not initiated, by wartime experience (Crawford and Keiller, 1928), was a common theme in these studies.…”

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A century of prehistory and landscape studies at the British School at Rome

Potter¹,

Stoddart²

2001

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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UN SECOLO DI STUDI PREISTORICI E DEL PAESAGGIO ALLA ‘BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME’Questo articolo esamina i cento anni di tradizione di studi preistorici e del paesaggio della ‘British School at Rome’. Questo secolo di ricerca consiste in tre fasi principali: la direzione di Ashby, quella di Ward-Perkins e gli ultimi tre decenni del ventesimo secolo. Le prime due sezioni, scritte principalmente da Tim Potter prima della sua scomparsa, ripercorrono lo sviluppo degli studi topografici dai primi decenni del ventesimo secolo fino allo studio regionale degli anni’ 60. Nell'ultima sezione l'attivita della ‘British School at Rome’ è inserita nel contesto delle tendenze più recenti nell'archeologia del paesaggio: una combinazione di orientamento delle problematiche ed un'accresciuta intensità di ricerca. Nonostante l'Etruria sud-orientale sia generalmente considerata come il principale interesse delle ricerche sul paesaggio condotte dalla ‘British School’, questo articolo cerca di sottolineare anche l'importanza di ricerche condotte altrove, particolarmente nell'Africa settentrionale, Malta ed in Italia meridionale. L'obiettivo per il futuro è di vedere fino a che punto la tradizione britannica di sintesi riuscirà a collegare queste nuove tendenze negli studi sull'archeologia di paesaggio.

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Oasis Forts of Legio III Augusta on the Routes to the Fezzan

Cited by 31 publications

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New fieldwork at the Severan fort ofMyd(…)/Gheriat el-Garbia on thelimes Tripolitanus

New fieldwork at the Severan fort ofMyd(…)/Gheriat el-Garbia on thelimes Tripolitanus

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A century of prehistory and landscape studies at the British School at Rome

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