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  • Libya, Madīnat Ţulmaythah
  • geo:32.707645,20.949032
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  • villa
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Ptolemais, House of Orpheus Mosaic

data access 42818

The House of Orpheus Mosaic dates back to the end of the IVth or beginning of the Vth century.

See:

  1. R. M. Harrison, “Orpheus Mosaic at Ptolemais,” JRS 52 (1962), pp. 13-18
  2. G. Caputo, La protezione dei monumenti di Tolemaide negli anni 1935- 1942,Quaderni di archeologia della Libia 3, 1954, pp. 33-66
  3. Szymon Lenarczyk, Warsztaty rzemieślnicze w Ptolemais w okresie późnorzymskim. Ze tudiów nad przemianami zabudowy miejskiej - https://depotuw.ceon.pl/bitstream/handle/item/1888/Lenarczyk%20-%20Tom%20I%20(1).pdf?sequence=10

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Creators: Entry created by Elżbieta (2017-06-28) , with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/42818
Data downloads: KML
Suggested citation: , E. , Ptolemais, House of Orpheus Mosaic. https://vici.org/vici/42818, accessed 2026-07-18.