Gigthis
Gigthis (also Gigthi ) was an ancient port city in North Africa, south of Djerba near today's Bou Ghrara in Tunisia .
Gigthis was already settled in Punic times, as a necropolis shows. It was urbanized in the Roman Empire when it belonged to the province of Africa . Since Hadrian the city's Latin citizenship, since had Antoninus Pius Roman as Municipium . The titular Gigthi of the Roman Catholic Church goes back to a late antique bishopric of the city .
In the extensive excavation area, ruins are preserved from several temples, the forum built under Hadrian , thermal baths and port facilities.
literature
- Abdelmajid Ennabli: Gigthis, Tunisia . In: Richard Stillwell et al. a. (Ed.): The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites. Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ 1976, ISBN 0-691-03542-3 .
- Marcel Le Glay : Gigthis. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 2, Stuttgart 1967, column 798.
Web links
- Gigthis archaeological site (tourist information)
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 33 ° 32 ' N , 10 ° 40' E
