Note on the 1988/89 Seasons at Tolmeta

Abstract

The 1988 season of the Society's work at Tolmeta concentrated on drawing the key pottery from the 1978/79 excavations in the North-east Quadrant. These drawings are currently being processed to refine the chronology of the structural phases on this part of the site, and it is hoped that the results will be published in the 1991 volume of Libyan Studies. The opportunity was also taken in 1988 of further examining in some detail stratigraphic sections in House G. A carbon sample taken from one of the rooms has now been C14 dated to the period AD 680-780. Thus settled life in the city would seem to have continued well into the Islamic period.