{"id":6446,"date":"2011-04-30T21:10:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-30T20:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/?p=6446"},"modified":"2011-04-30T21:10:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-30T20:10:20","slug":"the-lighthouse-at-leptis-magna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/2011\/04\/30\/the-lighthouse-at-leptis-magna\/","title":{"rendered":"The lighthouse at Leptis Magna"},"content":{"rendered":"

The harbour at Leptis Magna is a bay between two headlands, as this map from the web shows (click on the images for full-size).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Map of Leptis Magna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is silted up now, and a sandy beach runs between the two:<\/p>\n

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Lighthouse at Leptis Magna<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

On the far headland stands the lighthouse, or what now remains of it.\u00a0 It is falling into the sea, and another century will see it gone.\u00a0 The Italians would, of course, have done something about this, but the Libyans never have.<\/p>\n

I climbed up the headland, and took this closer photograph, looking north-east, where it seems relatively complete:<\/p>\n

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The Lighthouse at Leptis Magna, looking North-East<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

I then walked round to the left and took another, which makes the sea’s closeness clearer.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The lighthouse of Leptis Magna from the rear<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

The sea has demolished the left hand wall, as can be seen if you climb up close.\u00a0 The interior is now a shell, with the sea tossing at the bottom.<\/p>\n

I don’t think many people will be going to Libya this year, but we should remember how much there is there which is well worth our seeing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The harbour at Leptis Magna is a bay between two headlands, as this map from the web shows (click on the images for full-size).\u00a0 It is silted up now, and a sandy beach runs between the two: Lighthouse at Leptis Magna On the far headland stands the lighthouse, or what now remains of it.\u00a0 It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[1002,1017],"class_list":["post-6446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-world","tag-leptis-magna","tag-libya"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roger-pearse.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}