- BOU GHRARA
- Gightis was one of the numerous trading posts
- ( emporia) set up by the Phoenicians on the coast
of lesser Sirte (Tripolitania) early in the 1st
millenium B.C.
- It became rich from dealing in goods from the caravan
trade (salt, gold, slaves).
- After the Second Punic War (218-202 B.C.), the
Numidian king MASSINISSA grabbed the emporia;
later, in B.C., CAE-SAR conquered them and
integrated them into Africa Nova
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- WORKERS'CAMPS
- The quarries were imperial property
. Here was extracted the antique honey' marble
found in Simitthus, which was worked on the spot,
in a workshop. This covered 4.000 sp.m. and
contained administrative buildings, houses,
baths, sanctuaries and the workshop itself. The
workforce, composed of slaves and conicts, made
columns, slabs, dishes, statuettes, etc., usually
for export to the whole Mediterranean area via
the port of Thabraca (Tabaraka).
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