An Archaeological and Historical Guide to the Pre-Islamic Antiquities of Tripolitania

Foreword

The present guide book replaces my Ancient Tripolitania (Tripoli, 1946). Since 1946 ltalian and British archaeologists have thrown much fresh light on the antiquities of Tripolitania; and, quite apart from this, many passages in the earlier work called for substantial revision and amplification. The present work is therefore virtually a new one, a fact which it has seemed better to indicate by a change of title.
The excavation of ancient Tripolitania is the brilliant achievement of Italian archaeology: notably of Professors Salvatore Aurigemma, Pietro Romanelli, Renato Bartoccini, Giacomo Guidi, and Giacomo Caputo, who successively filled the post of Soprintendente agli Scavi e Monumenti della Libia. Since the war Italian archaeologists, who are happily continuing their fruitful work in the country, have been joined by a number of their British colleagues, including Mrs. Olwen Brogan, Dr. Kathleen Kenyon, Miss Joyce Reynolds, Professor Jocelyn Toynbee, Mr. Richard Goodchild, Mr. David Oates and Mr. John Ward Perkins. In default of foot-notes, which would be out of place in a work of this nature, I can only make here a general confession of the extensive raids I have carried out on the published works of these Italian and British scholars, to whose names must be added those of Dr. Gennaro Pesce and Dr. Nevio Degrassi....