Leptis Magna, notes and more.

If you listened to my recent podcast I spoke with Maria Lloyd about both Leptis Magna and the Roman Emperor, Septimius Severus. Here are some notes, details, images and extra reading.

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Maria Lloyd.

If you want to find Maria on twitter you can do so via @mariatlloyd and you can also find Maria on Linkedin. There is also Maria’s website. So if you want to ask any questions about Leptis or Severus you can easily contact her.

Leptis Magna.

In case you weren’t aware where Leptis was, or is, here’s a map.

These days the ruins are spectacular, though I’m not sure they can be safely visited. As Maria pointed out on the podcast it grew into a very important city. The below illustration helps give some scale.

The Garamantes.

I wrote a blog piece on the Garamantes, you can read it here.

The Phoenicians.

In the episode I mentioned the Phoenicians who probably settled what became Leptis. They set up trading posts and settlements across the Mediterranean as you can see here. If you’ve been to southern Spain there are several settlements (including Cadiz).

Further reading (and sources I used).

Carthage must be destroyed, Richard Miles

Carthage, Serge Lancel

Praetorian, Guy de la Bedoyere

The Severan Buildings of Lepcis Magna, B. Ward-Perkins

From the Mediterranean to the Libyan Sahara. Chemical analyses of Garamantian glass.

Chloë N. Duckworth,1a David J. Mattingly1 and Victoria C. Smith2

Marine resource exploitation in the cities of coastal Tripolitania, Andrew Wilson

Roman ports and Mediterranean Connectivity, Andrew Wilson, Katia Schorle & Candace Rice.

The Garamantes and Sub-Saharan Trade: An examination of Trans-Saharan Garamantian Influence, Merlijn Veltman

The Lepcitanian landscape across the ages: the survey between Ras el-Mergheb and Ras el-Hammam (2007, 2009, 2013) By Massimiliano Munzi, Fabrizio Felici, Jabar Matoug, Isabella Sjöström and Andrea Zocchi. Libyan Studies 47 (2016), pp 67–116

Urban production in the Roman world: The view from North Africa, Andrew Wilson