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Marcus Lucullus

Year of birth: 116 BCE

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Cut-out detail; background removed. Tall, narrow painted vessel with a human figure, photographed in Sozopol museum. — Zde · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In 72 BC, Marcus Lucullus’s troops captured Apollonia.

Scene 6 · Sozopol

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Antiquity

Sozopol

Sources

Balkan Heritage Foundation Archaeology of Apollonia Pontica Balkan Heritage Foundation archaeological projects
Classical Numismatic Group, Inc. Triton XIX, lot 75: THRACE, Apollonia Pontika. Mid 4th century BC. AR Tetradrachm. Kolotes, magistrate. Triton XIX auction catalogue; CNG Research Coins · 2016
Wikimedia contributors Coordinate statements P625: Sozopol, Miletus, Capitoline Hill, Sozopol Archaeological Museum Wikimedia Foundation; CC0 structured data

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ОКИ „Музеен център“ – Созопол ИСТОРИЯ НА АПОЛОНИЯ – СОЗОПОЛ Музеен център Созопол · 2020
National Archaeological Institute with Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Hoard from Apollonia NAIM–BAS News · 2012
French Ministry of Culture; Apollonia archaeological mission Apollonia Pontica Great Archaeological Sites / French Archaeology Abroad
ОКИ „Музеен център“ – Созопол АРХЕОЛОГИЧЕСКИ МУЗЕЙ Музеен център Созопол · 2020
ОКИ „Музеен център“ – Созопол Некрополите на Аполония Музеен център Созопол · 2020
Pliny the Elder; digital transcription Bill Thayer Naturalis Historia, Liber XXXIV, §39 Naturalis Historia; LacusCurtius, University of Chicago
Strabo; English translation H. L. Jones; digital edition Bill Thayer Geography, Book VII, chapter 6, section 1 The Geography of Strabo, Loeb Classical Library, vol. III; LacusCurtius, University of Chicago · 1924 · 277–279
Alexandre Baralis; Antoine Hermary Chapitre 1. Présentation générale de l’histoire et de la topographie d’Apollonia A. Hermary, A. Baralis, K. Panayotova, M. Damyanov, A. Riapov (eds), Apollonia du Pont (Sozopol). La nécropole de Kalfata (Ve–IIIe s. av. J.-C.). Publications du Centre Camille Jullian / Éditions Errance · 2010 · 11–17
Ernst Badian Terentius Varro Lucullus, Marcus Oxford Classical Dictionary · 2015
Ann Kuttner A Tortured Image: The Biography of Lucullus’ Dying Hercules PDF University of California eScholarship

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National Library of France · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons / National Library of France

Not a portrait: Standing figure on a bronze coin. Illustration to the passage mentioning Marcus Lucullus.

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Photo / digitisation: National Library of France (digitisation; photographer not credited); Wikimedia Commons; Public domain. Unmodified. Processed image.

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