An Ancient People of the Libyan Sahara

Daniels, Charles

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“…Seven full seasons' fieldwork and excavation then followed from 1965-1973 inclusive, and one subsequent season in 1977. The objects of these were four-fold: to record as much of the el Agial remains by fieldwork and survey as possible; to excavate selected habitation and cemetery sites; to recover floral and faunal material against a time when this could be identified; to compare the el Agial sites and material with the wadi Chatti (Sciatti) to the north and the Murzuch-Hofra-Wadi Bergiug area to the south (Daniels 1968;1970a/b;1971a/b;1973;1975;. These are reviewed below; where, however, there is new information, or where only a minimal notice has been previously given, a slightly fuller account is provided.…”

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Excavation and Fieldwork amongst the Garamantes

Daniels

1989

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The Garamantes exercised a powerful hold upon the Mediterranean imagination during the early and high Empire (Daniels 1970; Desanges 1962; Merighi 1940; Romanelli 1959; Ruprechtsburger, forthcoming). Remote and beyond the southern limits of the African provinces, they represented the mythical south, only accessible after perilous desert travel; they were inextricably interwoven in people's minds with swarming serpents, fabulous fountains and precious stones, with the silent noon tide of the terrifying desert and such inhuman creatures as men with no voices or no heads, strapfoots, Goat-Pans and Satyrs (Pliny, N.H. 5.1.7).The reality of Roman contact with them was no less exotic. The last entry of all in the Fasti Triumphales (CIL I2, p. 50) on the Arch of Augustus in the Roman Forum commemorates a triumph celebrated on 27th March 734 A.V.C. (19 BC) by L. Cornelius Balbus, ex Africa: below, the stone surface remains rough and no further names follow. But Balbus' honour was much more noteworthy for he was not even a Roman by birth (PIR2 C1331; Thomasson 1960, 11). Like his famous uncle, Caesar's Balbus, he was a full-blooded Spaniard hailing from Cadiz (Gades) — and the only foreigner ever to be accorded a triumph, the Elder Pliny informs us (N.H. 5.5.36). His rise to fame came about through a steadfast devotion to Caesar's cause, for which he was ultimately rewarded by Augustus with consular rank (Velleius 2.51.3), and became Proconsul of Africa in ?20 BC (Syme 1939, 80, 235, 325, 339, 367).

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Excavation and Fieldwork amongst the Garamantes

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1989

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“…In all c. 17 hands and 13 horns (or fragments clearly restorable) were found. Four of the hands and two stelae bore 'Libyan' inscriptions (Daniels 1975). The stumps of several stelae were found in situ beside monumental tombs, although none was found with the other graves.…”

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The Garamantes of Fezzan Revisited: publishing the C.M. Daniels archive

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Until the recent resumption of British fieldwork in the Fezzan, knowledge about the Garamantes was largely based on the interim reports of the extensive fieldwork carried out there by Charles Daniels between 1958 and 1977. Following the death of Charles Daniels in 1996, a new project based at the Universities of Leicester and Newcastle is undertaking the full publication of his work. This first interim report discusses progress with the preparation of a survey gazetteer for the Ubari-Germa area of the Wadi el-Agial, reports of the major excavations and the development of a ceramic type series on the basis of excavated material from Zinchecra, Germa and Saniat Gebril.

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“…70 di Lernia and Zampetti 2008;Hachid 1998;Mori, F. 1998. 71 Barnett 2019aBrogan 1975;Daniels 1975;Hachid 2000, 173-90;Mattingly 2003, 317-24;Rebuffat 1975. 72 Cf.…”

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