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Location:

  • Libya, Al Khums
  • geo:32.636448,14.293051
  • Location ± 0-5 m.

Class:

  • Temple or sanctuary
  • visible

Annotations

Septimius Severus dedicated to the Mother of God a very notable shrine, and built four other churches1. Basilica Severiana was a large basilica with two opposite apses.

See:

  1.  Procopius De Aedificiis, VI - http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Procopius/Buildings/6*.html
  2. Daniel Robin, The Early Churches in North Africa (The Holy Seed). Tamarisk Publications. Chester, 1993.

References

  1. ↑Procopius De Aedificiis, VI, 4.4


Relevant museums

Leptis Magna Museum

Leptis Magna Museum

Bani Walid, museum

Bani Walid, museum

Saraya Museum, Tripoli

Saraya Museum, Tripoli

Rome, Museo nazionale della civiltà romana

Rome, Museo nazionale della civiltà romana - Pigorini National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography.

The British Museum

The British Museum has one of the world's largest collections of antiquities from the Classical world.


Nearby

Lepcis Magna, Temple of the Septimii

Lepcis Magna, Temple of the Septimii

Severan Forum, Leptis Magna

Severan Forum, Leptis Magna

Nympheum, Leptis Magna

Nymphaion of Neapolis


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