City
Lepteminus
Lamta · Lemta · لمطة
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Lepteminus is Little Leptis, the smaller namesake of the famous Leptis Magna, and its remains lie at Lamta on the Tunisian coast. The Roman writer Pliny called it a colony of Phoenician Tyre. Hannibal landed here in 203 BC, and in the Third Punic War the town went over to Rome just in time, which made it a free city; siding with Caesar in the civil war kept that privilege under the emperors. The map gives it a pair of towers, with a road branching off towards Thysdrus. Its greatest standing came late, when the emperor Justinian made it the capital of Byzacena.