Sabratha. Libya. View in room 1 in the Roman Museum of a carpet like complete Mosaic from the removed from a house of Regio IV near the theatre. The tondo contains portrait heads of a panther and lion and a scene of Dionysus / Liber Pater together with Ariadne in a chariot drawn by two panthers. Magnificently sited on the water's edge of the Mediterranean, Sabratha was originally founded as trading post by the Carthaginians around 500 BC. Its importance and wealth attracted settlement by Hellenistic Greeks around the 2nd BC and then by the Romans in whose control the city prospered and in which the ruins seen today are a legacy of. Sabratha is considered one of the most beautiful and spectacular Roman ruined cities in the Mediterranean and is a designated UNESCO World Heritage site.