Leptis or Lepcis Magna?

There are two spelling of the city's name. Leptis is the version to be found in the ancient texts, and the one preferred by historians in the past Lepcis, however, is the name most widely found on inscriptions in the city. This is a more or less exact transcription of the city's original Punic name, based on the consonants L-Q-Y. The epithet Magna appears to have been added in the first century AD, to distinguish the town from the obviously smaller Leptis Minus on the coast of the Sahel region in modern Tunisia. The inhabitants of Leptis were of mixed Berber and Punic stock. Though heavily Romanized by the third century AD, they clearly continued to use the more local name Lepcis.