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A Survey of Ancient Harbours in Cyrenaica*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2015

R. Yorke
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In July of this year a three week study of ancient ports in the Libyan Pentapolis was undertaken by Robert Yorke, John Little and David Davidson. The principal achievement was the surveying of the remains of the harbours of Tolmeita and Tocra, with a brief investigation of the remains at Apollonia providing useful comparative material. Visits were also made to Zawiat el Haniya (? Ausigda), Zawiat el Hammama (Phycus) an d Driana (Hadrianopolis) but these proved, as expected, to have limited underwater remains.

Previous accounts of the ancient harbour at Tolmeita failed to agree on the exact location of the port but this controversy would now seem to have been resolved as a result of the discovery of submerged quays, roads and buildings and the underwater remains of protective harbour moles attached to the small islands in the bay to the East of the promontory. All these structures are now in an advanced state of decay as a result of wave action over the centuries but the main outlines are still apparent underwater.

Type
Short Reports on Research
Information
Libyan Studies , Volume 3 , 1972 , pp. 3 - 4
Copyright
Copyright © Society for Libyan Studies 1972

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Footnotes

*

The difficulties of achieving consistency in the transliteration of Arabic names are notorious. For the present we are not attempting to impose uniformity on our different contributors.

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* The difficulties of achieving consistency in the transliteration of Arabic names are notorious. For the present we are not attempting to impose uniformity on our different contributors.