flint-artists

Updated: May 1, 2025

But untold ages ere this the waters of Leila were already frequented by men of another kind, by the flint-artists. Among the relics of their occupation I picked up, here, an unusually fine implement of the "amygdaloid" shape. Not a soul in Gafsa, native or foreign, could tell me who was the lady Leila that gave her name to this fountain.

Norman Douglas - Fountains in the Sand : Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia