A visual ode to the Sifraniyah: salt, gold, and the cryptic tools of a forgotten mercantile code etched into the sands of Ifriqiya.In the annals of mercantile legend, obscured by the noisy clamor of Florentine ledgers and Venetian fleets, there existed a curious enclave on the southern periphery of the Mediterranean — a guild nestled in the sandstone arteries of Ifriqiya, in what we would now inelegantly label southern Tunisia. These traders, known in scant scrolls as the Sifraniyah, did not mer...