The decoration of the dining rooms at Ptolemais in Cyrenaica (Libya) in the light of the last researches

The mosaic pavements in the House of Leukaktios in Ptolemais (Cyrenaica, Libya), newly discovered by a Polish team from the University of Warsaw under the direction of T. Mikocki (1954-2007), have shed new light on the decoration of dining rooms in Ptolemais during the Roman period. It seems that in the principal triclinium of this house klinai were arranged in the Greek manner (according to É. Morvillez) and the second room, identified as an andron/triclinium, might have occasionally had klinai placed inside it. The authors propose to compare these mosaics with mosaic pavemens tdiscovered in two others houses in Ptolemais: two in the Palazzo delle Colonne and three in the Roman Villa, both of these structures having been excavated and published by Pesce and Kraeling in the 20th century.