Taucheira
Taucheira (Ταύχειρα, also Teuchira , Τεύχειρα, or Tocra , later Arsinoe ) was an ancient Greek port city in Cyrenaica ; the present port city is in the Munizip al-Marsch , Libya .
Taucheira was probably around 625 BC. Founded. The city had an important Demeter sanctuary, in which a large number of imported ceramics from Greece were found during excavations. In the Hellenistic period the city was named Arsinoe and had the status of a colony under the Romans . The city was fortified under Emperor Justinian .
The city was relatively small at around 500 × 500 m. She had a city map with streets intersecting at right angles.
A cemetery with numerous Jewish inscriptions was also found in Taucheira.
literature
- John Boardman , John Hayes : Excavations at Tocra 1963-1965. The Archaic Deposits I-II. London 1966–1973.
- Olwen Brogan: Taucheira, later ARSINOE (Tawqrah or Tocra) Libya . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
- Alan Rowe: Cyrenaican expeditions of the University of Manchester, 1952: comprising an account of the round, rectangular, stepped and rock-cut Tombs at Cyrene. Manchester 1956.
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Coordinates: 32 ° 32 ′ 0 ″ N , 20 ° 34 ′ 0 ″ E