TURRIS LIBISONIS (mod. Porto Torres, q.v.)

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TURRIS LIBISONIS (mod. Porto Torres, q.v.) , an ancient seaport town of Sardinia, situated at the north-western extremity of the

island

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

, and connected with Carales by two roads, which diverged at Othoca, one (the more important) keeping inland and the other following the west

coast

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

. It was probably of purely Roman origin, founded apparently by

Julius

JULIUS

Caesar, as it bears the title Colonia Julia; and in Pliny's time it was the only colony in the

island

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

. It is noteworthy that it apparently belonged to one of the urban tribes, the Collina;

Puteoli

PUTEOLI (mod. Pozzuoli, q.v.)

, which belonged to the Palatina is the only other
exception to the

rule

RULE

that municipia and coloniae were not enrolled in the urban tribes. A Roman

bridge

BRIDGE

of seven

arches

ARCHES, COURT OF

, somewhat restored in modern times, the ruins of a temple (now known as Il Palazzo del Re Barbaro), which an inscription found there shows to have been restored (A.D. 247-249) by the praefectus of the province, together with the basilica, an aqueduct, various buildings (S. Valero Usni in Notizie degli scavi (1882), 121, A. Taramelli, ibid. (1904), 145) and some

rock

tombs, still exist.
The

inscriptions

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

from Turris Libisonis are given by Th. Mommsen in Corp. inscr. lat x. 826; V. Dessi in Notizie degli scavi (1898), 26o; A. Taramelli, ibid. (1904), 141. One of them (C.I.L. No. 7954) mentions the construction of a fountain basin, another the construction of a quay (riper turritana) : substructions may still be seen under water when the sea is clear. (T. As.)

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