Fossa regia
The Fossa regia was a borderline drawn by Scipio Aemilianus between the after the end of the Third Punic War 146 BC. BC newly established Roman province Africa and the kingdom Numidia of the allied Massinissa .
It went something like this:
- from the mouth of the Tusca River (now Kébir ) near Thabraca ( Tabarka )
- eastern edge of the area of Vaga ( Béja )
- near Tichilla ( Testour )
- near Thimissua ( Gaâfour )
- near Saradi (Henchir Seheli?)
- Near Abthugni (Henchir es-Souar)
- Thenai ( Thyna )
The course is attested by ten boundary stones:
- BCTH (Bulletin Archéologique du Comité des Travaux Historiques) 1932–1933, 152
- CIL VIII Suppl. 4, 25860
- BCTH 1911, 402-404
- CIL VIII Suppl. 4, 25967
- BCTH 1934-1935, 391
- BCTH 1938-1940, 204
- CIL VIII Suppl. 4, 23084.
After Gaius Iulius Caesar took over the territories of the Numidian King Juba I , a follower of Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus , after the battle of Thapsus in 46 BC. Annexed to the Roman province of Africa nova , the Fossa regia formed the border between the new and the old province of Africa vetus . 27 BC Both provinces were combined by Augustus to form Africa proconsularis .
literature
- Werner Huss : Fossa regia. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 4, Metzler, Stuttgart 1998, ISBN 3-476-01474-6 , Sp. 625.
- G. Di Vita-Evrard: La Fossa Regia et les diocèses d'Afrique proconsulaire. In: A. Mastino (Ed.): L'Africa romana. Atti del III convegno di studio, 1986, pp. 31-58
- Ch.Saumagne: La Fossa Regia. In: Les Cahiers de Tunisie 10, 1962, pp. 407-416