Suburban Villa

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On the other side of the fortified enceinte, one hundred and fifty kilometers south was a large building that belonged to an architect according to an inscription found near the peristyle.

This huge suburban villa incompletely excavated, was laid out around two peristyles (Plan view, Fig. 1).

A large peristyle of twenty columns onto which rooms opened may have had a garden.

On the south of the peristyle was another courtyard with a portico of three columns on the east and west sides. The courtyard may have been planted.

Plans

Fig. 1: Plan of then city and its suburbs

Credit: (Constans, L.-A., 1916, pl. I)

Bibliography

Constans, L.-A., "Gigthis. Étude d'Histoire et d'Archéologie sur un Emporium de la Petite Syrte: avec 14 planches hors texte et 3 figures dans le texte", in Extrait des Nouvelles Archives des Missions Scientifiques. 14° fasc, pl.I, pp.100-103, Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1916.(worldcat) https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k74033b/f119.item.r=constans

Gigthis on Gardens of the Roman Empire

Suburban Villa

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