رؤوس الاصلاب نموذجا لأراضي الوقف في كيرينايكا

Abstract

The settlement of Ruus al-Asalab is located on the Cyrenaica coast, about 15 km east of the city of Apollonia (Soussa). The site is fossil sand dunes in the form of hills of varying heights, at the beachfront about 100 meters. It reaches a maximum height of C. 40 m above sea level and extends east-west. On the hills there are several archaeological sites, including a temple, quarries, cemetery, olive press, tanks and several other unidentified buildings. The researcher tried to carry out a field Work study of the site due to the lack of archaeological studies on it, as no excavations were conducted on the site. Stucchi .S is the first to refer to the Temple of Ruus al-Asalab in his work the Architictura Cirenaica . The Frigerio . C, study, which was published in the magazine Quaderni di archeologia della Libya is the only study of the temple. The site served as a model for the endowment agricultural lands that seemed to be endowments of the god Apollo and then moved to the kings of the Ptolemy and from them to the Roman emperors and finally became the land ofendowments for the church. Through this study of the site, it became clear that the site settled from the sixth century BC to the sixth century AD and reflects a model of coastal rural settlements in Cyrenaica . Generally, the site still needs more archaeological survey and excavation so that we can know the identity of many of the remains of buildings scattered in or near the site