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The Arch of Septimius Severus is a triumphal arch in the ruined Roman city of Leptis Magna, in present-day Libya (and Roman Libya). It was commissioned by the Roman Emperor Septimius Severus, who was born in the city. The arch was in ruins but was pieced back together by archaeologists after its discovery in 1928.
The Hunting Baths are an ancient Roman bath complex in the ancient city of Leptis Magna, in modern-day Libya. [1] They were built during the reign of the emperor Septimius Severus and are the second major bathing complex in Leptis Magna after the Hadrianic Baths. They have remained in a remarkable state of preservation to the present day ...
Leptis or Lepcis Magna, also known by other names in antiquity, was a prominent city of the Carthaginian Empire and Roman Libya at the mouth of the Wadi Lebda in the Mediterranean. Established as a Punic settlement prior to 500 BC, [ 2 ] the city experienced significant expansion under Roman Emperor Septimius Severus ( r.
Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna† Murqub: 1982 183; iii, v vi (cultural) Leptis Magna was founded as a Phoenician settlement LPQ and came under the Romans in 46 BCE. It was the birthplace of the Septimius Severus. After becoming the Emperor in 193, he rebuilt and enlarged the city and made it one of the most beautiful cities of the Roman ...
Mosque of Ahmad al-Qaramanli in Tripoli (1736–1738). The Ottomans conquered Tripoli in 1551 and made it the capital of a province roughly corresponding to modern-day Libya. . The first Ottoman governor, known as Dragut or Darghut (d. 1565), repaired and redeveloped the city's fortifications, giving the old city the roughly pentagonal shape it has tod
The broken pediments on each of the four sides of the Arch of Septimius Severus at Leptis Magna in Libya are very small elements, raking at an extremely steep angle, but not extending beyond the entablature for the columns below. There are two faces to each pediment, both carved, with one lying parallel to the wall of the monument, and the ...
Leptis Magna Museum is an archaeological museum located in Khoms (Leptis Magna), Tripolitania, Libya. [ 1 ] It contains evidence of people of different origins that once inhabited the city of leptis magna, including Berber, Punic, Phoenicians and Romans.
The two known Leptis Magna inscriptions published in Hendrik Arent Hamaker's 1828 Miscellanea Phoenicia The two known Leptis Magna inscriptions published in Wilhelm Gesenius's 1837 Scripturae Linguaeque Phoeniciae Monumenta. Prior to 1927, only eight Punic inscriptions from all of Tripolitania had been published. [4]