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  Leptis Magna
Leptis Magna, or Lepcis Magna as it is sometimes spelled, was a prominent city of the republic of Carthage, and later, of the Roman Empire.
It remained as such until the reign of the Roman emperor Tiberius, when Leptis Magna and the surrounding area were formally incorporated into the empire as part of the province of Africa.
In 439, Leptis Magna and the rest of the cities of Tripolitania[?] fell under the control of the Vandals when their king, Gaiseric, captured Carthage from the Romans and made it his capital.
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 Leptis Magna Libya  -  Travel Photos by Galen R Frysinger, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Lepcis Magna was associated with the Roman Empire for more than 600 years beginning in the 2nd century BC.
Lepcis Magna was also known as the birthplace of Roman emperor Lucius Septimius Severus (AD 146-211).
Lepcis Magna, which was located on a natural harbor protected by islands along the North African coast, began as a Phoenician trading post.
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 Spolia - Journal of medieval studies: Archeology | Archeology of the Medieval Society | Urban and Rural Landscape | ...
Lepcis Magna owes its name 3 to the Latin transcription of the Punic toponym Lbqy o Lpqy, which also referred to a town, situated in the present Tunisia (the town of Lamta), that was distinguished by the adjective Minor.
As it is well known, after the serious crisis of the 4th century, that ended with the Austurian invasion, Lepcis underwent Berber and Vandal invasions 4 (455 AC ca),and, during the first half of the 6th century had a new period of splendour under the Byzantine occupation during the Justinian revival.
As far as Christian evidences in Lepcis are concerned, we must speak of some engraved blocks, found by Bartoccini in 1923 26, during a superficial cleaning of the area around the east pier of the harbour, near the small Severi temple, that was probably transformed into a church.
www.spolia.it /online/en/argomenti/archeologia/archeologia_societa_medievale/1997/leptis.htm   (3501 words)

  
 Libya - Archaeological Site of Leptis Magna
Leptis Magna was enlarged and embellished by Septimius Severus, who was born there and later became emperor.
Lepcis Magna, or Leptis Magna, is an ancient city along the Mediterranean Sea, located near the modern-day city of Al Khums in Libya.
Lepcis Magna was also known as the birthplace of Roman emperor Lucius Septimius Severus (146-211).
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 Leptis Magna
Leptis Magna was located on a natural harbour protected by islands, and at the mouth of the seasonal river Labdah.
The main reason for Leptis Magna's wealth was the agriculture, exporting much grains and olive oil to Rome.
Leptis Magna's claim to fame in the modern world is owed to the fabulous state Roman city, where much dates to the 3rd century.
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 Detail Page
Also known as Leptis Magna; this seaport was one of the major cities of Roman Africa and, despite a flood in 1987, remains a very significant archaeological site.
With little stress, Lepcis Magna was transformed rapidly into a Latin community, allowing all of the inhabitants to reap benefits from the resulting imperial favor.
Lepcis Magna (as Carthage and Utica) received wider rights under the Ius Italicum, befitting a Roman colony.
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 Lepcis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Lepcis Magna, which began as a small port city on Libya's Mediterranean coast, became a magnificent Roman city in the third century A.D. under the rule of Emperor
It was not until the turn of the 20th Century that Lepcis was rediscovered.
Lepcis was saved from probable destruction in 1943 when British archaeologists Major John Ward-Perkins and Mortimer Wheeler saved the city from becoming a RAF radar post.
library.thinkquest.org /3011/lepcisg.htm?tqskip1=1&tqtime=0323   (352 words)

  
 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Lepcis was the most easterly of the three cities that gave the North African region of Tripolitania its name.
In the 6th century BC Carthage became the dominant Phoenician colony and gradually took control of other Phoenician areas in North Africa, including Lepcis Magna.
Emperor Trajan made Lepcis a colonia, a Roman colony with full Roman citizenship rights for the city’s population, in AD 109.
www.leptismagna.com /default.asp?pg=History   (270 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Lepcis Magna was founded by Phoenician colonists in the 7th century BC.
Septimius Severus who was born at Lepcis Magna was emperor from AD 193-211.
In the early years of the 3rd century AD a massive building programme was initiated which covered the reclaimed area to the north-east of the Hadrianic baths with a huge complex consisting of a Colonnaded Street, a Nymphaeum, and a New Forum and Basilica.
museums.ncl.ac.uk /roman_africa/LEPARCH.HTM   (551 words)

  
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 Leptis Magna - Piloti's Pages - by Piloti
The city grew as a prosperous trading centre, but raids by desert tribes began in the 4th century AD and the city was virtually abandoned by the 8th century.
Lepcis Magna, which was located on a natural harbour protected by islands along the North African coast, began as a Phoenician trading post.
Underneath the remains of a large theatre built in the 1st century AD is a cemetery probably dating from the 4th or 3rd century BC.
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 Magna Carta - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Magna Carta - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Magna Carta (Latin, “Great Charter”), document sealed by King John of England on June 15, 1215, in which he made a series of promises to his...
John (of England), called John Lackland (1167-1216), king of England (1199-1216), best known for signing the Magna Carta.
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 Basilica Lepcis Magna   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The city of Lepcis Magna, situated on the north coast of Libya was one of the main centers of Tripolitania.
Its Roman origins go back to the last decades of the second century B.C. But it knew its monumental development in the early thirdth century A.D. under the reign of Septimius Severus who was born in Lepcis.
To commemorate this fact he endowed his native city with a huge building program in which the new forum with the basilica was one of the main projects.
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 Araldo de Luca - fotografo di opere d'arte   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Lepcis Magna is a wonderful archaeologic site, a city where a visitor can trace their settlement from Punic times straight through to late Byzantine.
In this city born the Roman emperor Septimius Severus, like shows the Arch of Septimius that is recostructed in Lepcis.
There are also the mythological hero, Castor and Pollux, taken from the theater and a stone elephant.The arrival of water and marble in Leptis early in the 2nd century BC prompted the Emperor Hadrian to commission the baths bearing his name, which became one of the social hubs of the city.
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 The Hadrianic Baths at Leptis Magna
Presentation of this reconstruction will either be by slides of ray-traced and textured computer generated images, or by using plotted perspectives of the building as an accurate underlay for 'conventional' perspective drawings.
Images of Bacchus (Dionysius) and Hercules who were patron deities for the City of Leptis Magna are of particular importance though the full Pantheon of gods appear to have been represented.
The computer has advantages and disadvantages compared with other reconstruction methods, the most important being that a choice of viewpoints is possible once the model is entered into the computer but the building of the model takes considerable time and may not poduce the effects, particularly atmospheric that the user may want.
archpropplan.auckland.ac.nz /virtualtour/hadrians_bath/hadrians_bath.html   (3373 words)

  
 Discussion Board
Lepcis Magna is a World Heritage site on the Mediterranean coast of North Africa in the Tripolitania region of Libya.
Originally founded by the Phoenicians in the 10th Century BC, it survived the attention of Spartan colonists, became a Punic city and eventually part of the new Roman province of Africa around 23 BC.
To link to this group topic about lepcis magna "in libya" use [group_post 2827] in your messages.
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 Humanities Computing News, April 1998
Lepcis Magna (or Leptis Magna) is an amazingly well-preserved Roman city, in the Tripolitania region of Libya, on the North African coast.
From its Phoenician beginnings Lepcis Magna successfully defeated Greek colonization to become a significant Roman city associated with many of the great names of the Roman Empire.
Thus the Lepcis Magna Web, constructed by Dr. Hafed Walda (Classics, KCL), who since 1994 has been leading a team of archaeologists and a few King's students to conduct new excavations on part of the site.
www.cch.kcl.ac.uk /legacy/tmp/hcn/hcn-1998-04.html   (2297 words)

  
 Libyaonline.com Information and Entertainment at your fingertips.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Leptis Magna is among the most complete magnificent of the 3 towns (tripolis) of North Africa.
It began as a Phoenician port of call on the trading route across the region, though it was ultimately administered in the 6th century BC, it is thought, from Carthage.
A full inspection of the wealth of monuments requires at least a full day and rather longer for visitors with a specialist interest since Leptis Magna is well preserved and has an unequalled range of buildings from the classical period.
www.libyaonline.com /libya/cities/leptis.php   (304 words)

  
 Lepcis Magna - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Lepcis Magna - Search Results - MSN Encarta
The Government Library and National Archives are located in Tripoli, and the country’s largest library, containing more than 300,000 volumes, is...
Search for books about your topic, "Lepcis Magna"
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 ttgapers store - USA - Septimius Severus (Roman Imperial Biographies) (Roman Imperial Biographies) - Anthony Birley - ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Given that Septimius came from Lepcis Magna, an African city that prospered under Roman rule, Birley first explores what was African and what was Roman in his background.
We follow Severus from his native town of Lepcis Magna (in today's Lybia), the member of a family of Phoenecian origin but Romanized for generations.
To be sure, the first chapters on the origins of Lepcis Magna are a bit slow, but all the rest is fascinating.
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 Theater at Lepcis Magna - Picture - MSN Encarta
Theater at Lepcis Magna - Picture - MSN Encarta
Spectacular Roman ruins are located at Lepcis Magna, on the Mediterranean coast of Libya.
The dry desert climate of North Africa has helped preserve the remains of the city of Lepcis Magna, including this theater.
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 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This inscription comes from the theatre at Lepcis Magna, which was dedicated in AD 1-2.
It is one of a pair discovered in situ over the passages which connect the orchestra with the lateral corridors.
Both texts record the name of his father, Himilchonis Tapapius, but only the Punic gives the name of his mother, Aram, and this is in keeping with the different cultural backgrounds to the two languages: Punic very often, but Latin almost never records the name of a dedicator's mother.
museums.ncl.ac.uk /roman_africa/BILLEP.HTM   (482 words)

  
 Amazon.com: "Lepcis Magna": Key Phrase page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Diana that graced the summit of the amphitheatre at Lepcis Magna in Libya is an excellent example of this type of scheme.
The fate of the ruins of Lepcis Magna is a typical example, since many Italian fortifications were built using ancient worked stones that had been taken from its...
Clodius Albinus, governor of Britain, who came from Hadrumetum in Africa, by declaring him Caesar.6 Severus was born in Lepcis Magna in Africa in 145.
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 Lepcis Magna - Welcome to the new excavations from Dr. H. Walda   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Lepcis Magna - Welcome to the new excavations from Dr. H.
Since 1994 I have been leading a team of archaeologists conducting new excavations on part of the site of one of the most exciting Roman cities of North Africa, Lepcis Magna in the Tripolitania region of Libya.
I want to be able to share this exciting site with as many people as possible, and so I have set up this web site to present material from our excavations along with other information about Lepcis Magna.
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 How to defeat the Romans quick - SCC Forums   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Attack Carthage, they've gone to reinforce Lepcis Magna and attack S.P.Q.R. Bide your time.
A suitable plan and you don't need to have control of Sicily or Lepcis Magna already.
This is basically how I play with Carthage, BTW, using an all cavalry army with a unit of elephants allows you to exterminate almost every city on the Roman peninsula and cripple them if you aren't planning on staying (destroy all buildings, etc).
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 Spartanburg SC | GoUpstate.com | Spartanburg Herald-Journal   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Leptis Magna, also known as Lectis Magna (or Lepcis Magna as it is sometimes spelled), also called Lpqy or Neapolis, was a prominent city of the Roman Empire.
Its ruins are located in Al Khums, Libya, 130 km east of Tripoli.
They are currently on display in the Leptis Magna Museum.
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 Ancient History Web Links
Lepcis Magna is an archaeological site in modern-day Libya.
The website is maintained by archaeologists working in Lepcis Magna, and their dig reports from the excavation since 1994 are available online.
The Book of the Dead was a collection of morturary spells written on papyrus that the Ancient Egyptians placed with the dead to help them pass safely through the dangers of the underworld.
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 Septimius Severus   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Lucius Septimius Severus was born on 1 April AD 145 at Lepcis Magna in Tripolitania.
His paternal great-grandfather, who had moved from Lepcis Magna to Italy and become an equestrian, was most likely of Punic origin and his mother, Fulvia Pia, was from a family which had moved from Africa to Italy.
His home town Lepcis Magna benefited in particular.
www.roman-empire.net /decline/sept-severus.html   (1810 words)

  
 Leptis Magna on 43 Places
E.S. Posthumus has this album called “Unearthed” and it’s really neat because all of the songs are named after ancient or ruined cities, and this is one of them (spelt Lepcis Magna, but whatev.).
I haven’t been to Leptis Magna in nearly 40 years … back then it was a wonderful place.
Leptis Magna is one of the most magnificent Roman cities in Africa and I would love to go there and spend a couple of weeks taking photo’s.
www.43places.com /visit/Leptis-Magna-Libya/202732   (356 words)

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