Lepti Minus/ Lamta Leptis-Minor

Leptis Minor : Present-day Lamta, situated at 35 km south-west of Sousse/Hadrumetum. This Leptis of the Tunisian Sahel is called Minor in order to distinguish it from Leptis Magna (the grand) in Tripolitania/Libya. Became known owing to certain text passages (Polybius and Bellum Africanum). Its Punic history is also shown by archaeological funeral data found in a large necropolis situated on the left bank of Bou Hjar wadi. Better known, the Roman epoch is now revealed through different vestiges now exhibited in the museum of Lamta and the Bardo, namely an beautiful mosaic depicting Apollo, the nine muses and the four seasons (third century A.D.). Lamta also possesses a beautiful Islamic ribat (a fort) founded by the Aghlabites in 859 A.D.