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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 26525351, member: 128351&quot;]I too already posted this as of Geta :</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1690656[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>These &quot;<i>Di Patrii</i>&quot; (&quot;ancestral gods&quot;) are Liber Pater and Hercules, the Roman version of the Punic gods Shadrafa and Melqart, gods of Leptis Magna. </p><p><br /></p><p>Leptis Magna was already great and magnificent when Septimius Severus was born, but when he became an emperor he favoured his home city. Several lavish monuments were built there under his reign, with de luxe marbles and precious stones, sometimes imported from distant quarries. </p><p><br /></p><p>In the 17th c. the French consul in Tripoli, Claude Le Maire, made a deal with the local Ottoman governor, removed from the site of Leptis Magna statues, sculptures and monolithic marble columns, and had them shipped to France. The columns were recut to obtain precious marble slabs that were used to ornate the Versailles Palace or several churches like Saint Germain des Prés in Paris or the Cathedral of Rouen. </p><p><br /></p><p>In 1816 a British officer, colonel Warrington, made the same kind of deal with the pasha of Tripoli. Several columns and capitals were carried to England and were erected in 1826 in the great park of the Windsor Castle, to create fake ruins. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1690658[/ATTACH]</p><p>Ruins of Leptis Magna in the Great Park of the Windsor Castle.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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