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The contribution derives from a recent resumption of studies on the architecture of the Curia in the Old Forum of Lepcis Magna, excavated by G. Guidi in the Thirties and then remained largely unpublished. The building fits the category of... more
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      Libyan archaeologyRoman ArchitectureLEPTIS MAGNARoman Archaeology
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      HistoryEconomic HistoryArchaeologyEconomics
This contribution offers a new reading of the ancient landscape of the periphery of Lepcis Magna thanks mainly to the data from the survey campaigns carried out by the Archaeological Mission of Roma Tre University (2007– 13) together with... more
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      Classical ArchaeologyLatin EpigraphyRoman roadsRoman North Africa (Archaeology)
The theatres of Rome, Pompeii and of the provinces of the empire in the Augustan Age (and beyond) are analysed, through exempla, within a contextual framework that includes the history of mentality, the iconographic programmes and the... more
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      Roman HistoryRoman theatreLEPTIS MAGNAMerida
Maria Antonietta Rizzo, Leptis e il suo anfiteatro PARTE I Maria Ricciardi, L'anfiteatro di Leptis magna Premessa Introduzione I. Storia degli studi e delle indagini archeologiche Le notizie dei viaggiatori Le spoliazioni, la cart...... more
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      ArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyAncient Greek and Roman TheatreRoman theaters
In public opinion Publius Quinctilius Varus has hitherto mainly been regarded as the tragic loser of the famous battle in the Teutoburg Forest in AD 9. However, this negative repute does not do justice to Varus, who previously had pursued... more
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      Roman HistoryRoman VillaeRoman military archaeologyRoman Army
The situation of Roman North Africa during the imperial period provides excellent data for bilingualism. Among the bilingual inscriptions found in that region are those featuring parallel texts in Latin and neo-Punic. Analysis of the... more
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      Phoenician Punic ArchaeologyPhoenician and Punic StudiesLEPTIS MAGNAPunic Leptis Magna
G. Mazzilli, L' Arco di Traiano a Leptis Magna, Monografie di Archeologia Libica XLII, Roma 2016 This monograph summarises the results of the full study of the monument, already excavated and restored by the Italian Archaeological Service... more
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      Classical ArchaeologyClassicsImperial RomeLibyan archaeology
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      ArcheologiaSeveran AgeLibiaLEPTIS MAGNA
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      HistoryArchaeologyNorth Africa StudiesSecond World War
Il volume costituisce un primo sistematico lavoro di sintesi su un aspetto della marmorizzazione della città di Leptis Magna, ossia l'importazione dei marmi bianchi e colorati impiegati negli allestimenti architettonici degli edifici... more
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      ArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyRoman Marble trade and distributionLibyan archaeology
Entre amulettes et talismans, les monnaies trouées : ce qui se cache sous les apparences i-xxxix ARTICLES H.W. Horsnaes, M. Märcher & M. Vennersdorf A stepping stone in the Baltic sea. Two millennia of coin finds and coin use-a case study... more
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      NumismaticsFunerary ArchaeologyViking StudiesViking Age Archaeology
Ce travail se fonde sur une partie de ma thèse de doctorat (2010), dédiée à Claude Le Maire et aux activités archéologique françaises en Afrique du nord et remploi des monuments en France, entre XVIIe et XVIIIe (dir. A. Schnapp). On... more
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      ArchaeologyAestheticsHistory of ArtAntiquarianism
Fighting at Lepcis Magna: Libyan War Archaeology. Just 100 years ago, declaring war on Turkey for the conquest of the Ottoman provinces of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, Italy started one of the last great colonial wars (the last should... more
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      HistoryMilitary HistoryArchaeologyOttoman History
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      ArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyLibyan Heritage (Architecture)Roman North Africa (Archaeology)
È dal 1995 che la missione archeologica dell'Università Roma Tre conduce ricognizioni nel territorio di Leptis Magna (Libia). Ad oggi sono stati indagati oltre 100 km2 e documentati oltre 450 siti. Sulla base di tale ingente corpus... more
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      African StudiesArchaeologyIslamic ArchaeologyMedieval History
This paper deals with the location of the springs of the river Cinyps (or Cynips) in Tripolitania, by comparing literary sources with topographic and archaeological data provided by explorers and by geoarchaeological studies carried out... more
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      ArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyMaritime ArchaeologyClassics
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      HistoryEconomic HistoryArchaeologyEconomics
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      HistoryEconomic HistoryHistorical GeographyArchaeology
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      ArchaeologyArcheologiaRoman ArchitectureArchéologie
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      Economic HistoryClassical ArchaeologyRoman HistoryLandscape Archaeology
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      Ancient HistoryAfrican StudiesArchaeologyMaritime Archaeology
An ancient, barbarous, counterfeit (ABC) coin purchased as Carthaginian, with an obverse capricorn and reverse horse, is described, and its likely origin is investigated. Official coins that may have served as our coin's prototypes are... more
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      Ancient numismatics (Archaeology)Carthage (Archaeology)Roman North Africa (Archaeology)Ancient Greek Numismatics
The relationships between human modification of the environment and natural events in the Roman city of Leptis Magna (UNESCO world heritage), western Libya, are analyzed. For the first time, the history of Leptis Magna is tested against a... more
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      HistoryGeographyArchaeologyGeomorphology
Because of its Mediterranean immediacy, the Maghreb will be closely related to historic Egypt, ancient Greece, Phoenician colonizers, the flourishing and fall of Carthage and the rise of Rome. To define the área of study we resort to the... more
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      African HistoryRoman provincial administrationRoman military historyCarthage (History)
Die vorliegende Arbeit ist die leicht überarbeitete Fassung meiner Dissertation, die im Wintersemester 2014/2015 von der Philosophischen Fakultät der Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn angenommen wurde; seither erschienene... more
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      Latin EpigraphyRoman EpigraphyRoman North Africa (Archaeology)Romanisation
Il n. 23, n.s. III, di Quaderni di Archeologia della Libya mantiene l’articolazione scelta per la nuova veste della rivista. Anche il prossimo numero avrà carattere miscellaneo (n. 24, n.s. IV, 2021), mentre quello successivo (n. 25, n.s.... more
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      ArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyCultural Heritage ConservationRoman Empire
The mausoleum of Gasr Doga in the Tarhuna area was a grand funerary monument erected, by a member of the local Libico-Punic élite, in a strategic position on the limits of the provincial territory. Its architectural articulation recalls... more
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      HistoryArchaeologyIslamic ArchaeologyLate Antique Archaeology
This paper presents the results of an architectural survey undertaken in October 2013 at Qasr el-Banât, one of the most significant Roman mausolea of the suburban area of Lepcis Magna. The structure is a massive three-storey, tower-type... more
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      Classical ArchaeologyFunerary ArchaeologyClassical ArchitectureDeath and Burial (Archaeology)
The paper will focus on the suburban and periurban area of Lepcis Magna (Libya), one of the most iconic cities of Roman Africa. Although the core of the city has been deeply analyzed, its periphery has been, up to now, poorly studied and... more
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      Classical ArchaeologyLandscape ArchaeologyLandscape UrbanismRoman North Africa (Archaeology)
2 Dove se ne contano ben 25 esemplari (BROUQUIER-REDDÉ 1992, 236). Si veda anche ROMANELLI 1970, 117. Sulla tipologia si veda in generale CASTAGNOLI 1955, dove, a p. 143, si evidenziano, per gli esemplari databili a partire dalla fine del... more
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      Libyan archaeologyRoman ArchitectureLEPTIS MAGNAHellenistic and Roman architecture
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      Phoenician Punic ArchaeologyRoman North AfricaPunic North AfricaLEPTIS MAGNA
Das von über 130 Teilnehmerinnen und Teilnehmern besuchte Kolloquium »IMPERIUM – Varus und seine Zeit« widmete sich dem Römischen Reich unter Augustus. Die Ergebnisse flossen in die Konzeption der großen Sonderausstellung »IMPERIUM – 2000... more
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      Roman HistoryRoman VillaeRoman military archaeologyRoman Army
Since 1995 the Archaeological Mission to Libya of Roma Tre University has carried out several surveys in the territory and suburbs of Lepcis Magna. Besides the survey of the archaeological and historical sites, the Roma Tre team has also... more
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      ArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyPeace and Conflict StudiesConflict Archaeology
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      Roman Water Supply (Archaeology)MultidisciplinaryRoman ArchitectureLEPTIS MAGNA
ABSTRACT: The article analyses the architecture of the macellum at Leptis Magna Markets built on a monumental scale in the Roman urban landscape were typified by a well thought-out spatial organization. As a centre of food redistribution,... more
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      Roman Architecture and UrbanismLEPTIS MAGNARoman Archaeology
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      HistoryMilitary HistoryArchaeologyContemporary History
In questo articolo si ricostruisce la vicenda storica e culturale di una statua trovata a Bengasi nel 1692-3, conservata grazie a Claude Le Maire, console francese a Tripoli, poi inviata a Luigi XIV, a Versailles. La statua, di età... more
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      ArchaeologyAestheticsArt HistoryArt Theory
The article offers a concise topographical and archaeological examination of the sites between Derna and Cyrene that Claude Le Maire, French consul in Tripoli de Barbarie, mentions in a record about his travels in Cyrenaica (1705-6),... more
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      Middle East & North AfricaExploration HistoryAntiquarianismHistory of Archeology
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      ArchaeologyUrban PlanningRoman North Africa (Archaeology)Romanization
Già antica città punica, grande porto commerciale, estesa e monumentale città romana magnificente di fori, basiliche, vie colonnate, archi, terme, mercati e teatri. Il più stupefacente esempio di architettura monumentale e decorativa, il... more
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      LibiaLEPTIS MAGNAImpero RomanoArcheologia Africa Romana
The talk aims to shed light both to the topographic aspects linked to the distribution of the mausoleums within the Lepcis Magna extra-urban landscape and, where possible, to their typological and architectural features. The recent survey... more
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      Ancient HistoryArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyAncient Topography (Archaeology)
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      HistoryArchaeologyRoman HistoryPottery (Archaeology)
Talking about the relationship between archaeology and numismatics the mind goes immediately to the problems presented by the discovery of coins in stratigraphical excavations. Switching to the archaeological survey, the reflection on the... more
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      HistoryEconomic HistoryNear Eastern ArchaeologyRoman History
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      Mythology And FolkloreEntomologyIchthyologyArchaeology
Mobilità delle persone e dei popoli, dinamiche migratorie, emigrazioni ed immigrazioni nelle province occidentali dell'Impero romano Atti del XVI convegno di studio Rabat, 15-19 dicembre 2004 A cura di Aomar Akerraz, Paola Ruggeri, Ahmed... more
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      HistoryAncient HistoryAfrican StudiesArchaeology
Since 2007, the Archaeological Mission of Roma Tre University has conducted surveys in the territory of Lepcis Magna, in a peri-urban area between Ras el-Mergheb and Ras el-Hammam. To date, 168 sites have been surveyed. From the analysis... more
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      HistoryAncient HistoryArchaeologyIslamic Archaeology
Quando Antonino Di Vita dette lavvio allambizioso progetto di pubblicazione dei monumenti del Foro Vecchio di Leptis Magna, fulcro della vita cittadina per secoli, con il proposito di saldare finalmente quel debito che gli archeologi... more
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      ArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyArcheologiaMediterranean archaeology
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      LEPTIS MAGNAAncient Roman MarblesMarbles in roman provinces