Aghram Nadharif
Aghram Nadharif (Berber: city of alum ) is an archaeological site 10 km south of the city of Ghat in Fessan in the far west of Libya . It concerns the remains of a fortress of the Garamanten .
The fortress or fortified village was built of stone on a hill. The facility is around 155 m long and 55 m wide. It consists of a wall that was once about 2.5 m high and 2 m wide. There were at least two towers that are still a good 4.5 m high today. Perhaps there were two other towers, but their remains are too poorly preserved to be identified with certainty. There were four gates. The interior of the fortress was densely built up with small houses, each of which usually had two rooms. The place was inhabited from the first to the fourth century AD. About 250 people lived here. A small part of the place has been excavated. There was a cemetery with around 500 barrows near the settlement. A Roman coin was found here that was minted in 303 AD. It is one of the largest known Garamantine settlements.
Individual evidence
- ^ M. Munzi: A tetrarchic radiate at Aghram Nadharif , in: Mario Liverani (editor): Aghram Nadharif (The Archeology of Lybian Sahara II), Rom 2005, pp. 327-332.
literature
- Lucia Mori: Fortified Citadels and Castels in Garamantian Times: the Evidence grom Southern Fazzan (Libyan Sahara) , in: Frederike Jesse, Carola Vogel (editor): The Power of Walls - Fortifications in Ancient Northeastern Africa , Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3 -927688-39-1 , pp. 195-216, especially, pp. 199-205.
Coordinates: 24 ° 53 ′ 2 ″ N , 10 ° 12 ′ 6 ″ E