Dar Buk-Ammarah
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.J. Mattingly Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: D.J. Mattingly Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 29, 2025 07:46 PM
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History
tags:
dare:major=0,
dare:feature=villa,
extant remains,
opus vermiculatum,
opus sectile,
opus tessellatum,
dare:ancient=0,
mosaics
A coastal villa known especially for its polychrome gladiatorial mosaics was excavated at Dar Buk-Ammarah, located on the coast some 4.5 km to the north of Zliten, Libya.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/344573
32.4983198244, 14.558264247
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Villa Dar Buc Ammera (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Dar Buk-Ammarah (English, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
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- Zliten (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Dar Buk-Ammarah located near Neapolis/Lepcis Magna (unspecified date range)
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villa
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 35 G2 Zliten
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Zliten, Dar Buk Ammara
D.J. Mattingly, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Dar Buk-Ammarah: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/344573> [accessed: 18 February 2026]
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