Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-xbtfd Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-19T02:04:38.614Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Aerial photographs of Sabratha and Garian

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2015

Andrew Wilson
Andrew Wilson*
Affiliation:
Institute of Archaeology, Oxford
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

This note presents five aerial photographs of Sabratha, and one of Garian, which formerly belonged to C. N. Johns and were recently discovered amongst the papers of John Lloyd. The aerial photographs of Sabratha shed some new light on the town's size and development.

Type
Articles
Information
Libyan Studies , Volume 32 , 2001 , pp. 107 - 113
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Libyan Studies 2001

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Notes

1 For an obituary of Lloyd, John (d. 1999), see Libyan Studies 30 (1999), 3–5Google Scholar (by G. Barker and D. Mattingly); and for Johns, C. N. (d. 1992) see Libyan Studies 24 (1993), unnumbered pp. before p. 1Google Scholar (by G. R. H. Wright), and Levant 25 (1993), iv (by Hamilton, R. M.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 For general introductions to Sabratha, see Ward, P., Sabratha: a guide for visitors, London (1970)Google Scholar; Vita, A. Di, ‘Sabratha’, in Polidori, R., Vita, A. Di, Vita-Evrard, G. Di, Bachielli, L., Libya. The lost cities of the Roman Empire, Cologne (1998): 146–181Google Scholar; Ruprechtsberger, E. M., ‘Sabratha–Eine antike Stadt in Tripolitanien,’ Antike Welt 32.1 (2001): 35–46Google Scholar. On the town plan and layout, see Ward-Perkins, J. B., ‘Town planning in North Africa during the first two centuries of the Empire, with special reference to Lepcis and Sabratha: character and sources’, in 150-Jahr-Feier Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Rom, Ansprachen und Vorträge 4.-7. Dezember 1979 (MDAI römische Abteilung, 25 Ergänzungsheft), Mainz (1982): 29–46Google Scholar and comments by Di Vita pp. 46-49. The excavations in the centre of the town are published in Kenrick, P. M., Excavations at Sabratha 1948-1951 (Journal of Roman Studies Monographs, 2), London (1986)Google Scholar. Additional remarks in Wilson, A. I., ‘Commerce and industry in Roman Sabratha’, Libyan Studies 30 (1999): 29–52CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Vita, A. Di, ‘Archaeological News 1962-1963. Tripolitania’, Libya Antiqua 1 (1964): 133Google Scholar.

4 Ward-Perkins (n. 2), 38-45.

5 Kenrick (n. 2), fig. 108 p. 242.

6 Guidi, G., ‘Criteri e metodi seguiti per il restauro del teatro romano di Sabratha’ Africa italiana 6.1–2 (1935): 30–53Google Scholar.