Athar Tulmaythah Travel Guide

 grets Says:  Another delicate piece of mosaic found in the museum, this byzantine work of art dates from the 4th century and is known as The Four Corners. 

 grets Says:  This marble statue depicts the Egyption Emperor Ptolemy who ruled over Ptolemais in the third century and who gave the city its name. 

 grets Says:  This marble fountain with bas relief depicts the Dancing Maenades.The Maenades were the priestesses of Bacchus. They were known as the 'bad girls' from legends that they would drink wine, entice innocent young men to join them in their celebrations, and kill them while they... 

 grets Says:  This 2nd century marble statue shows the gladiator Epomedum. Usually, gladiators were condemned criminals, prisoners of war, or slaves bought for the sole purpose of gladiator fights. There were also mercenaries in those days - professional gladiators who volunteered to... 

 grets Says:  This second century statue of venus shows the goddess of love and beauty . She isalso known as Aphrodite in Greek Mythology.Venus was born of the Sea and the Sky and is also associated with the rites of Spring and Fertility.The city of Venice was named after this goddess,... 

 grets Says:  The mosaic of Medusa was found in the Villa of Columns.Medusa was once a beautiful maiden with glorious hair, but Athena turns her into a monster in a rage of jealousy, turning her beautiful locks into hissing serpents. She became such a cruel monster that everyone who... 

 grets Says:  The central room in the msuem is dominated by the fabulous Four Seasons mosaic which was found in a villa on the site.Starting from the top left and going in a clockwise direction, you can see Summer, Spring, Winter and Autumn. 

 grets Says:  These Byzantine public baths date from around the 5th century. The depression in the middle of the picture would have been the frigidarium, or cold bath. 

 grets Says:  Along the length of the Monumental Street, fragments of marble can still be seen on the floor - the whole street would once have been covered like this. 

 grets Says:  The monumental Street (decumanus maximus) was once lined with colonnaded arcged porticos along the whole length of the street, both sides. It must have abeen quite a sight. 

 grets Says:  These domes hide some 5th century Byzantine cisterns. 

 grets Says:  Underneath the Forum are Africa's largest cisterns, a big complex of 15 cisterns, six metres deep, with six million cubic metres of water arriving through an aquduct from springs some 25 km away from the city.Steps lead down into the cisterns, but I would not recommend... 

 grets Says:  The Greek agora (marketplace) later served as the Roman Forum. Along the northern side were three temples, each with four Doric columns, some of which retain their bases to this day. 

 grets Says:  These mosaics are found in situ in a small 5th century Byzantine church. 

 grets Says:  It is from this colonnaded 2nd century BC private palace that the famous mosaic depicting the head of Medusa (now in the museum) was found. Next door was the dining room where mosaic fragments can still be seen. The centre of the villa contains a sunken swimming pool,... 

 grets Says:  No details are known as to whom this 3rd century Hellenistic temple is dedicated to. 

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