Lebanon
There are 671 items in Lebanon:
Tyre, Sarcophagus of the Drunken Cupids, front |
Tyre, Sarcophagus with a Fighting Scene |
Tyre, Statue of a female deity |
Tyre, Stele of Ramesses II and Ra-Horakhty |
Tyre. Tombstone of Autronius Bassus of the Cohors Italica |
Tyre, Wall painting of a carrier |
Tyre's Juridical Status
The Roman jurist Ulpian (c.170-228) was born in Tyre, and was proud about it. In his book On Taxes, he commented upon his city's juridical status: its citizens had full Roman citizen rights ("Italian law"). The section is known from…G. Velius Rufus
Gaius Velius Rufus (before 40 - after 96): Roman officer and war hero from the Flavian age.Gaius Velius Rufus is best known from an inscription that was discovered at the Great Court in front of the temple of Jupiter Optimus…
Villa Selene, Mosaic of Amphitrite (2) |
Wen-Amun
Wen-Amun: Egyptian diplomat, famous for his misadventurous voyage to Byblos in the early eleventh century BCE. A king of the Twentieth Dynasty…Zacharias of Mytilene on the end of the temple of Heliopolis
At the end of the fifth century, Zacharias of Mytilene composed his Ecclesiastical History. It was translated and abbridged by a Syriac author, who added material of his own, like chapter 8.4. This second author is called Pseudo-Zacharias. The translation…