D.100 Apollonia - Governor's Palace

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Creator

Denis Baly

Creation Year

January 1963

Image ID

D.100

Alternate Identifier

B04.100

Subcollection

D: North Africa

Abstract

An ambulatory in the palace complex surrounding surrounding its central courtyard. -MA

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.04.100. Notes written on the slide or index: Apollonia Shops.

Curator Notes

Legacy Subcollection: "D: Appollonia"

Image Format

35 mm slide

Geographic Reference

Susah, Libya