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45. The survey of the site was carried out by H. Coddington and I. Skirton
under the direction- of J. R. Burnss. and myself. The final drawing for
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publication
was by myself.
46. J. N. Dore (pers. comm) notes 2 sherds of terra sigillata, examples of
ARS forms 5; 23,27,27/31 (10 rims) which as a group hint at a late
second-century. origin for the site. Later pottery included ARS forms
50,58,32/58,59,69 and TRS 2,3.
47. The site was surveyed in 1979 by G. D. B. Jones, myself and others for
the
ULVP.
48. For example, a fortified building of this type was excavated at Hr.
Suffit (Tarhuna) by Bartoccini 1929,106-10. Although clearly defensive
in nature one can be less certain of a military interpretation on the
basis of the ashlar masonry.
49. Boinag is almost certainly the site known to Pliny as Boin (NH, V. 37)
50. Rebuffat 1970c, 181-87; 1970d, 17-18.
51. Brogan and Reynolds 1964,43-46; Rebuffat 1970b, 136-37; 1982a,
plates; App. 3, nos. 48-49.
52. Rebuffat 1972a, 324-26; 1975c, 499; 1982c, 197-99, on sites in the
wadi Neina and bei el-Kebir (for instance Shwerif and a
"forteresse" at Oum el-Gueloub nearby).
53. The cistern at Zerzi was actually constructed by the Roman army and
the same was no doubt true in other cases. These large cisterns were
not simply to supply the small detachments with water but to encourage
travellers and transhumers to use the routes under Roman supervision.
54. This fact is played down by Goodchild 1971,160.
55. Warnes was first visited and planned by de Mathuisieulx 1905,88-89,
a fact unknown to Smith 1971,302-03, who also published a plan.
Coodchild 1976a, pl. 19, is a superb air-photograph of the site which
shows the gasr in its full context with ditch and low counterscarp
wall. The site was visited and resurveyed for the ULVP in 1981 by
myself, Dr. D. Welsby and P. Moffat.
56. IRT 881 (= App. 3, no. 32). The text is very worn and overlain by
graffiti, but the visible letters suggest it belongs in the class
identified as Latino-Punic by Levi della Vida 1963,65-94; 1965,59-62.
57. The plan reproduced by Gauckler and Cagnat is preferable to Trousset's
simplified
version.
58. The latest coin is of Eugenius A. D. 392-94.
59. The following list of towers is compiled from Trousset 1974. His
site nos. 18,34,40,101,115 are possibilities at best for military
sites. Nos. 54-57,74,107,111 are certainly in association with
other military sites. But his site 108, which I visited in 1982, is
not a tower at all, but a farm with an associated square mausoleum
covered by a circular tumulus:
60. Including gates four towers are associated with the Tebaga clausura,
one with Bir out All, one (or two) with Skiffa, one with Chenini;
four with Hadd Hajar (including one discovered in 1981 by D. Buck).
61. See above 6: 3; Barth 1857,123; Coodchild 1954a, 54, and pers.
obs. with ULVP. The tower stands in a dominant position c. 1 km
north of the fort with extensive views of the approach corridors
from the north and east.
62. Donau 1904a, 467-77, on the tower 250 m south of Benia Ceder; Donau 1909a,
36-37, Trousset 1974,78, on Mergueb ed Diab. See also note 64,
below.
63. On the varied functions of towers, see Baatz 1970; Gichon 1974,513-30.
64. Rebuffat 1978,846, describes the legend which links Bezereos
and Tamezrend.
65. Di Vita 1964a, 87-88; Rebuffat 1978,845-46.
66. Rebuffat 1978,845-46; 1982a, 483-85.