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Tolmeita Museum

Museum of Tolmeita

The Museum of Tolmeita, also known as Ptolemais Museum, houses a number of archaeological treasures and ruins that were found in the region, such as statues, including those of the Libyan Medusa and Cleopatra, columns, tablets, burial and funerary objects, and several mosaic floors, from the Punic, Greek, Roman and Byzantine periods.

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One of the most unique exhibits of the museum, and of historical importance, is a price tablet showing prices of goods in the Roman empire, dating to the 301 AD. The finds have attracted nearly 10000 visitors last year.

The museum was originally a store house used during the Italian occupation, in which a number of archaeological artifacts ended up for storage, and most of which still are, to this day, piled up in its store rooms, yet to catalogued and given a place in the museum. The store house was turned into a museum during the 1960s. Some of the finds are actually still outside the museum with no protection from the elements whatsoever.

Roman 4 seasons mosaic in Museum of Tolmaita in Libya.

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