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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 484 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TURRIS LIBISONIS (mod. See also:

Porto Torres, q.v.)  , an See also:ancient seaport See also:town of See also:Sardinia, situated at the See also:north-western extremity of the See also:island, and connected with See also:Carales by two roads, which diverged at Othoca, one (the more important) keeping inland and the other following the See also:west See also:coast . It was probably of purely See also:Roman origin, founded apparently by See also:Julius See also:Caesar, as it bears the See also:title Colonia Julia; and in See also:Pliny's See also:time it was the only See also:colony in the island . It is noteworthy that it apparently belonged to one of the See also:urban tribes, the Collina; See also:Puteoli, which belonged to the Palatina is the only other exception to the See also:rule that municipia and coloniae were not enrolled in the urban tribes . A Roman See also:bridge of seven See also:arches, somewhat restored in See also:modern times, the ruins of a See also:temple (now known as Il Palazzo del Re See also:Barbaro), which an inscription found there shows to have been restored (A.D . 247-249) by the praefectus of the See also:province, together with the See also:basilica, an See also:aqueduct, various buildings (S . Valero Usni in Notizie degli scavi (1882), 121, A . Taramelli, ibid . (1904), 145) and some See also:rock tombs, still exist . The See also:inscriptions from Turris Libisonis are given by Th . See also:Mommsen in Corp. inscr. See also: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 See also:

fountain See also:basin, another the construction of a See also:quay (riper turritana) : substructions may still be seen under See also:water when the See also:sea is clear . (T .

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