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08 · WORKSHOPS · STRATIGRAPHIC CONTEXT

Saniat Jibril

The houses and workshops of Saniat Jibril

Hearths, moulds and metal remains show domestic and craft activities that changed over time.

Museum documentation · free public access, no account required.

DECLARED VISUAL RECONSTRUCTION · AI-GENERATED IMAGE · TRACEKEEPERS

Generated reconstruction · Declared visual hypothesis

Declared visual reconstruction, created for museographic contextualisation; not a photograph of the original nor does it constitute documentary evidence.

Historically specific recreation of Hearths, slag and moulds in a connected settlement, Saniat Jibril · Fezzan, Garamantian and late phases
DECLARED VISUAL RECONSTRUCTION · AI-GENERATED IMAGE · TRACEKEEPERS

Generated reconstruction · Declared visual hypothesis

Declared visual reconstruction, created for museographic contextualisation; not a photograph of the original nor does it constitute documentary evidence.

History and context

Saniat Jibril preserved hearths, slag, moulds, local objects and imports within excavated phases.

Each material must return to its stratum and association. Grouping it under an industrial label would erase dwelling, repair and temporal change.

Volume 3 of The Archaeology of Fazzan publishes the excavation of Saniat Jibril with its stratigraphic associations. Hearths, slag, moulds, glass and pottery belong to different activities and phases.

The term workshop is useful only where installation and waste coincide. An imported object or isolated slag does not demonstrate large-scale specialisation.

Evidence and interpretation

Installations, waste and materials are excavated. Scale of specialisation and political control are not uniform.

Catalogue facts

Narrative date
Garamantian and late phases
Location
Saniat Jibril · Fezzan
Material
Adobe, slag, moulds, glass and pottery
Context
Settlement and production
Curatorial reading
The documented fact and its interpretation appear separately in the evidence block.
Publication
The Archaeology of Fazzan, volume 3
Method
Interpretation by phase and stratigraphic association
Documentary coverage
2 museum, heritage, primary corpus or research sources for this stop.

A closer look

About 1 min to read · 1 section. Further reading and sources · free access. Editorial review recorded: .

Working metal does not mean extracting it

A research programme on Saharan copper studied material from Saniat Jibril and Old Jarma, including fragments of sheet metal, ornaments, ingot moulds and hearth residues. Its authors distinguished metalworking, documented at those places, from extracting metal from ores, for which evidence was then lacking. Chemical and isotopic measurements were intended to investigate origins and possible recycling. This distinction allows the workshop to be understood as a link in a technical and commercial chain, without attributing all of its operations to it.

Location and territory

Physical world map with routes of human evolutionPresent-day world coastline from Natural Earth in an equirectangular projection. The overlaid markers let you explore each milestone.Map base: Natural Earth 1:110m · public domain · present-day reference coastline

APPROXIMATE LOCATION

Saniat Jibril · FezzanApproximate marker of the excavated settlement.

Sources and references

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