D.097 Apollonia - Governor's Palace

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Creator

Denis Baly

Creation Year

January 1963

Image ID

D.097

Alternate Identifier

B04.097

Subcollection

D: North Africa

Abstract

View from inside the Governor's Palace of Apollonia.

Description

The remains of the "sumptuous governor's palace, of about A.D. 500, in which lived the beautiful and talented Theodora—unjustly vilified by Gibbon (following Procopius)—who was the governor's favorite before she married Justinian. The city wall forms its south side, and some of its rooms project into a bastion" (MacKendrick, 132).

References

MacKendrick, Paul. The North African Stones Speak. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1980.

Image Notes

Creation date unknown. Photograph processed September 1963. Formerly cataloged as B.04.097. Notes written on the slide or index: Apollonia.

Curator Notes

Legacy Subcollection: "D: Appollonia"

Image Format

35 mm slide

Geographic Reference

Susah, Libya