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Leptis Magna
Definition by Mark Cartwright

Leptis Magna

Leptis Magna (aka Lepcis Magna), located in western Libya, North Africa, was a Phoenician city founded by Tyre in the 7th century BCE. Continuing to be a major city in the Roman period, it was the birthplace of Emperor Septimius Severus (r...
Tushpa
Definition by Mark Cartwright

Tushpa

Tushpa, later known as Van, was the capital of the Urartu kingdom of ancient Armenia, eastern Turkey, and western Iran from the 9th to 6th century BCE. Located on the eastern shore of Lake Van in modern Turkey, the city was a fortress site...
Cerveteri
Definition by Mark Cartwright

Cerveteri

Cerveteri (Etruscan name: Cisra or Caisra, Greek: Agylla, Roman: Caere) was an important Etruscan town which flourished between the 7th and 4th century BCE. Located near the western coast of central Italy, around 50 km north of Rome, Cerveteri...
Vulci
Definition by Mark Cartwright

Vulci

Vulci (Velch) was an Etruscan city located 12 km from the western coast of central Italy by the banks of the Fiora River. Flourishing as a trading port between the 6th and 4th century BCE, it was an important member of the Etruscan League...
Parthian Art
Definition by Patrick Scott Smith, M. A.

Parthian Art

Parthian art flourished within the Eurasian cultural corridor from the late hundreds BCE to the early 1st and 2nd centuries CE. With the Parthian Empire (247 BCE - 224 CE) stretching from India and China in the east to the Mediterranean shores...
Faras
Definition by Joshua J. Mark

Faras

Faras was an important town near Abu Simbel in southern Egypt/northern Kush (modern-day Sudan). It was a center of trade and administrative offices which was founded between 2040-1750 BCE. In the New Kingdom (1550-1070 BCE) a temple to Hathor...
Aytap
Definition by Joshua J. Mark

Aytap

Aytap is the modern name for the ancient city of Iotapa (sometimes given as Iotape and Iotape Philadelphos) in Cilicia. The city's ruins are located in southern Turkey near modern day Alanya (ancient Coracesium). The city was founded in 52...
Demotic Embalmer's Agreement
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Demotic Embalmer's Agreement

This document contains an agreement between one group of lector-priests of the necropolis of To-ankh at Asyut, and another group, defining which persons were to be employed in the ceremonies of mummification, and what materials were to be...
Macedonian Burial Casket Decorations from Pydna
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Macedonian Burial Casket Decorations from Pydna

Grave goods from a male burial in the necropolis of Pydna, c. 330 BCE. Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, acc. no. Py4285. The ancient city of Pydna (near today's small town of Makrygialos) was a semi-independent harbour by the Thermaic...
Stone Coffin, Smyrna
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Stone Coffin, Smyrna

This coffin was part of a larger necropolis in "Old Smyrna" (established in the 11th century BCE) and is believed to be from the 7th or 6th century BCE. The necropolis contained the remains of nobles who died after the attack of Alyattes...
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