Historical place profile
Gasr Silu
Gasr Silu, Libya, is an ancient site documented by the British School at Rome under John Bryan Ward-Perkins in 1969. Field study was conducted by Sheila Gibson and Margaret Browne. Photographs in the BSR archive document architectural remains at the site that include productive installations and the remains of two Byzantine churches. A Byzantine fort (gasr) was also identified.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:375237
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:375237
- Place type
- archaeological-site, church-2, fort-2, settlement
- Coordinates
- 32.673611, 21.279722
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Gasr Silu, Libya, is an ancient site documented by the British School at Rome under John Bryan Ward-Perkins in 1969. Field study was conducted by Sheila Gibson and Margaret Browne. Photographs in the BSR archive document architectural remains at the site that include productive installations and the remains of two Byzantine churches. A Byzantine fort (gasr) was also identified.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 38 C1 1
Source and reuse
This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.
Research path
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