Vicus Maracitanus
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Vicus Maracitanus was a civitas of the Roman Province of Roman North Africa [1][2] that has been identified with ruins at 36° 01′ 04″ N, 9° 13′ 47″ E the modern village of Ksar-Toual-Zouameul (just south of El Ksour) in Siliana province Tunisia.[3]
[4] The remains are scattered over an area of abpout 800m with a temple and Basilica still evident.[5] The Princeton encyclopedia of classical sites describes the town as:
The modest country town is unquestionably pre-Roman in origin. The chief monument, the Capitolium, which is in the form of a temple with a pronaos that was probably hexastyle, stood on the square of a forum opposite a larger building of unknown purpose. A section of a street, some cisterns, and what may have been a Christian chapel have been excavated.[6]
The name has been confirmed from inscription insitu,[7][8][9] prior to that it had been attributed by some to Zama Regia.[10][11] [12][13]
References
- ^ Thacia at Roman Empire Atlas.
- ^ Barrington Atlas, 2000, pl. 33 D1
- ^ Maracitana (Ksar Toual Zammel).
- ^ Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister, Stillwell, Richard, MacDonald, William L., McAlister, Marian Holland, [Ed. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0006:entry=vicus-maracitanus&highlight=maktar The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ].
- ^ Noel Lenski, Failure of Empire: Valens and the Roman State in the Fourth Century A.D. (University of California Press, 2003).
- ^ Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister, Stillwell, Richard, MacDonald, William L., McAlister, Marian Holland, [Ed. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0006:entry=vicus-maracitanus&highlight=maktar The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites].
- ^ Louis Déroche , Les fouilles de Ksar Toual Zammel et la question de Zama ( Vicus Maracitanus) Mélanges d'archéologie et d'histoire (1948) Vol60 n°1 pp. 55-104.
- ^ Alain Cadotte , The romanization of the gods(BRILL , 2007) p482.
- ^ Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister, Stillwell, Richard, MacDonald, William L., McAlister, Marian Holland, [Ed. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0006:entry=vicus-maracitanus&highlight=maktar The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites ].
- ^ Paul Lachlan MacKendrick, The North African Stones Speak (UNC Press Books, 2000) p337.
- ^ Essai de classification des peintures et de chronologie related "Tetes rondes" du Tassili et de l'Acacus,(ERMA of BRETSCHNEIDER, 1992) p45.
- ^ Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth, Esther Eidinow,The Oxford Classical Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2012) p1586.
- ^ Leaves Louis. The excavations of Ksar Toual Zammel and the question of Zama (Vicus Maracitanus). Mixtures of Archeology and History, Vol.60, (1948). pp.55-104.