Tolometta
- Ancient name
- Ptolemais
- Modern name
- Tolmeita
- Modern country
- Libya
- Coordinates
- 32.714347, 20.947218
- World Historical Gazetteer
- https://whgazetteer.org/places/portal/8364355
Tolometta was a port town in eastern Libya, about 110 km east of Bernico (Benghazi). Its name is connected both to the ancient city of Ptolemais and the modern town of Tolmeita on the same site. Like Berenice (Dati's Bernico), Ptolemais had been one of the 5 cities of the ancient Libyan Pentapolis. Campbell #1605.
The toponym Tolometta appears in La Sfera in the following places:
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Map of the location P143
Variant spellings of Tolometta in Sfera manuscripts
| Variant | Manuscripts |
|---|---|
| [...]holomet[...] | Par1 |
| tanlanmetta | Fn12 |
| tollometa | ME2 |
| Tolmetta | NYPL2, Ricc17 |
| Tolom[etta] | Par3 |
| tolome / tta | Ricc1 |
| tolome[...] | Chig2 |
| tolomet[...] | Pnc3 |
| Tolometa | He1, Par4, Vat3 |
| tolometa | Magl4, Med3, Pad1, Ricc11, Ricc6, Ro2, Tre, Wie1, Yale4 |
| Tolometta | BL01, BL02, Cap1, Chig1, Clas2, Con3, Cs1, Fo, Luc2, Marc2, Med1, Morg, Parm2, Pnc4, Ricc14, Vat2 |
| tolometta | Bal, Barb3, Barb4, Borg, Con1, Con4, Fn3, Fn6, Fn8, Fn9, He2, He3, Laur3, Laur5, Magl2, Marc1, Med2, NB, NYPL3, New, Pal5, Pal6, Pal8, Pnc5, Ricc12, Ricc13, Ricc8, Ricc9, Spe, Urb1 |
| tolonmetta | Cors2, Per2, Ricc15 |
- Suggested citation
- Beneš, Carrie. “Tolometta.” Gregorio Dati’s La sfera = The Globe: A Digital Edition, November 13, 2026. https://la-sfera-staging-a8db029690a6.herokuapp.com/toponyms/tolometta/.