Ruth Pelling and Saleh al Hassy. B.C. Barley is the principal cereal crop recorded, while both hulled and free-threshing wheats are present.
Fruit remains generally dominate the samples and include frequent seeds of grape and fig.
The grape pips are of interest in that they appear to be morphologically more wild than cultivated. It is thought that they may be of a variety which does not conform with the characteristics of better known northern Mediterranean varieties of grape. Fadel Ali Mohammed. The horseman of Tobruk. Aspects of the geographical setting of Tobruk, the ancient Antipyrgos, are discussed as a context for the publication of a limestone statuette of a horse and rider found in 1991 at Bir el Jeser.