Gasr el-Gezira, a Shrine in the Gebel Nefusa of Tripolitania

Contenu

Titre

Gasr el-Gezira, a Shrine in the Gebel Nefusa of Tripolitania

Créateur

Brogan, Olwen Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Oates, David Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Date

11/1953

Dans

Papers of the British School at Rome Voir tous les contenus avec cette valeur

Résumé

Gasr el-Gezira stands on high ground about one kilometre south of the edge of the escarpment overlooking Wadi el-Matmùra where it debouches on to the Gefara, the coastal plain of Tripolitania, and about four kilometres due north of kilometre-stone 166 on the Jefren—Giado road. The escarpment in the neighbourhood is over 400 metres high, and the building stands at a height of 745 metres above sea-level, on the watershed between the wadis running down to the Gefara and those feeding the affluents of the Upper Sofeggin system to the south.

The building is surrounded by scattered troglodyte dwellings and sparse olive groves, interspersed with fig gardens and more open land used for cereal cultivation. The remains of a Roman village lie some three hundred metres to the south-east, and the whole complex marks the north-eastern extremity of an area of Roman olive cultivation, roughly coinciding with the district known as ez-Zintan, and probably to be assigned to the period between the first and the fourth centuries
a.d
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Langue

eng

volume

21

pages

74-80

Titre abrégé

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

doi

10.1017/S0068246200006437

issn

0068-2462, 2045-239X

uri

https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0068246200006437/type/journal_article

Brogan, Olwen et Oates, David, “Gasr el-Gezira, a Shrine in the Gebel Nefusa of Tripolitania”, 11/1953, bibliographie, consulté le 19 septembre 2024, https://ibadica.org/s/bibliographie/item/1779