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Pliny the Elder writing in the first century AD, situated Gigarta between Tripolis to the north and Botrys to the south. [3] [4] The Museiliha inscription referencing Gigarta was discovered in Aabrine, south of the promontory of Ras ash-Shaq'a. It was reported to have been transported from its findspot in the vicinity of the Mseilha Fort.
Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/24–79), known in English as Pliny the Elder (/ ˈ p l ɪ n i / PLIN-ee), [1] was a Roman author, naturalist, natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian.
Pliny the Elder (2.75.1) [5] and Diodorus Siculus (3.41.1) [6] also mention the hunting of the elephants. The early Ptolemies had seen the value of war elephants by the military strength of the Seleucids. Cut off from any possibility of acquiring Indian elephants, they founded and actively sought to capture them from the neighboring regions of ...
Reconstructed plan of Pliny's villa in Tuscis (Robert Castell 1728) reconstruction by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, 1842 Excavations ot Colle Plinio. The Villa of Pliny in Tuscis was a large, elaborate ancient Roman villa-estate that belonged to the Plinys (Pliny the Elder and Pliny the Younger). [1] It is located at Colle Plinio near San Giustino ...
The town is one of the ten cities of the Decapolis listed by Pliny the Elder. [6] There are many primary sources, including Pliny the Elder that list different variations of the cities of the Decapolis. Capitolias was founded as a planned Roman city, perhaps for military purposes, [5] under Nerva or Trajan in 97 or 98 CE.
The Natural History (Latin: Naturalis Historia) is a Latin work by Pliny the Elder.The largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire to the modern day, the Natural History compiles information gleaned from other ancient authors.
The American Homebrewer's Association has voted Russian River Brewing Company's Pliny The Elder as the number one beer in the US for the seventh year in a row. AHA members were asked to list their ...
Illyrii proprie dicti ('properly called Illyrians') or Illyrians proper were presumably a group of ancient Illyrian tribes. They were attested only by ancient Roman writers Pliny the Elder and Pomponius Mela, designating a people that was located on the southern Adriatic coast (around the coast of modern Albania and Montenegro).