Leptis Magna in 218 B.C.

Leptis Magna — Carthage › The Libyphoenician Cities.

The greatest of the Emporia, a wealthy terminus of the trans-Saharan trade in gold, ivory and wild beasts. Its prosperity was such that Livy reports it paid Carthage tribute reckoned at a talent of silver every day — the richest single tributary of the African coast.