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Creation Year
January 1963
Image ID
D.044
Alternate Identifier
B04.044
Subcollection
D: North Africa
Abstract
The four-way arch of Marcus Aurelius, used by the Lepcitanians as a means to express "their gratitude to Marcus Aurelius for prosperity" (157).
Description
The arch "stood near the port, at the crossing of the cardo and the town's northernmost decumanus. The northeast side, which faces the harbor, and the southwest were treated alike, with projecting composite columns, and statue-niches in the piers. One of the statues, of the emperor's colleague Lucius Verus, was mutilated by the Arabs as being an idol ... Identical inscriptions dated 163 ran across each face of the monument above the arches. A cupola roofed the arch" (158).
References
MacKendrick, Paul. The North African Stones Speak. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1980.
Image Notes
Photograph created 1963. Photograph processed September 1963. Formerly cataloged as B.04.044. Notes written on the slide or index: Tripoli Gate of Marcus Aurelius.
Curator Notes
Legacy Subcollection: "D: Tripoli"
Image Format
35 mm slide
Geographic Reference
Tripoli, Libya
Keywords
Arches, Stone, Masonry, Minaret, Second Century AD, Roman Period
Rights Statement
