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Water turns, pottery residues and a reused stele in Libya
A historical water measure paced irrigation in Ghadamès. Pottery from Takarkori carries evidence of dairy processing, while a marble stele from Cyrene was later reused at a Byzantine bath.
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A timed measure for the Ghadamès gardens
The chapter by Passon and colleagues calls the irrigation measures al Quadus. Its account of Rohlfs describes an iron pan with a hole in its base that emptied in about three minutes; seven Gaddus made a Dermissa, roughly 20 minutes of watering. UNESCO connects Ghadamès’s water management with its palm groves and identifies Ain al-Faras, called ghusuf locally, as the spring around which the old settlement developed.[1][6]
Pottery and burials at Takarkori
Takarkori offers evidence from both pottery and human remains. Lipid analysis links vessels from its rock shelter with dairy processing in the fifth millennium BC. A separate 2025 genome study examined two women buried there about 7,000 years ago. The researchers assigned the greater part of their ancestry to a North African genetic lineage not previously described; the authors interpret this pattern as pastoral practices spreading through cultural transmission.[2][3][4]
A Cyrene stele reused at the baths
IGCyr places the stele’s earlier setting at the Sanctuary of Apollo and records its later reuse in Cyrene’s Byzantine Baths. Ferri found the 1.53 m inscribed marble in 1922; its editors date it cautiously to 375–360 BC.[5]
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What did a Dermissa measure?
The chapter by Passon and colleagues reports that seven Gaddus made one, marking an irrigation interval of roughly 20 minutes.[6]
What kinds of evidence come from Takarkori?
The pottery study concerns food processing; the genome paper examines ancestry from two burials and interprets its findings as cultural transmission of pastoral practices.[2][3][4]
What happened to the Cyrene stele after it was inscribed?
IGCyr records its reuse as a bath step and places its probable original setting at the Sanctuary of Apollo.[5]
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