Dedi was an Egyptian worker who worked under the Roman engineer Vitruvius at the Aquaeductus Kyrenaike in Cyrenaica during the 1st century BCE.
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During the mid-1st century BCE, Dedi was employed under Vitruvius, working at his aqueduct in the Green Mountains region of Kyrenaika. Dedi was given the dioptra, a surveying tool which he used during the construction. While having the lunch his wife had sent him, Dedi left the tool in a cave west of the aqueduct. However, the tool was taken by the bandits in the cave, causing him to believe it had been stolen by spirits or animals.[1]
Without the tool, Vitruvius was unable to carry his work on the aqueduct, leading him to ask the Medjay Bayek of Siwa to investigate. Bayek went after Dedi who, fearing for his life, tried to run away. Reaching a dead end, he ultimately confessed to Bayek what had happened, and thus directed him to the cave to recover the tool.[1]
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