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A Funeral Offering near Euesperides
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2015
Abstract
Immediately following the conclusion of the Ashmolean Excavations at Euesperides (Spring 1954) investigations were made at a locality c. 1 km to the south of the site and close by the (then) modern road to Benina Airport in order to determine possible survivals of undisturbed burials in a region long known as an ancient cemetery area. These investigations immediately lighted on an interesting deposit of pottery and terracotta jewellery from the later part of the fourth century BC. The deposit was placed on the rock floor in front of a cutting which had produced a vertical face c. 1 m high. Yet although a flat stone had been set against the rock face no chamber had been cut into the scarp, and no evidence of funerary practice survived in the area excavated.
Editor's Note: this short paper is printed purely as a salvage operation concerning an exploratory sondage carried out in 1954 and written up at that time. It was handed over for publication by the author in Athens to Llewellyn Brown of the Ashmolean Museum, but never actually appeared; the original text, together with photographs and drawings of the objects, cannot now be found: possibly with this publication they may be identified. Mr Wright is one of the few people now living who was involved in archaeological work in Libya at that period, and even in its largely unillustrated form it would be unfortunate to entirely lose the 1954 record printed below.
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