So-called House of the Doric Peristyle
Creators: Valeria Vitale
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/372376094
32.8176008163, 21.8585282972
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of the House of the Doric Peristyle in Cyrene (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Casa del Peristilio Dorico (Italian, modern)
- House of the Doric Peristyle (English, modern)
- So-called House of the Doric Peristyle connection Cyrene (unspecified date range)
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Pleiades
The house is named after its large Doric peristyle, onto which many of the rooms open. The house also featured a number of mosaics that are now partly still in place and partly exhibited in the museum of Cyrene. According to Goodchild, it was destroyed by fire (possibly in the fourth century AD).
Valeria Vitale, and Jeffrey Becker, 'So-called House of the Doric Peristyle: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/372376094> [accessed: 21 November 2024]
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