Jebel Moraba
Coordinates: 36 ° 36 ′ 0 ″ N , 9 ° 52 ′ 0 ″ E
Jebel Moraba (possibly also M'rabba or Muraba , the Roman name of the settlement is unknown) was a Roman settlement about 55 km from Carthage in what is now Tunisia .
Excavations
The amphitheater was discovered from the air as early as 1934 by Lieutenant Colonel Gaudin of the Tunisian air being at the time. The small forum of the Roman settlement was excavated by Tunisian archaeologists in 1998; remains of the cisterns, a water retaining wall and several cellars can still be seen. About 500 m northwest of the forum there is an amphitheater , of which only the elevation of the stands and the entrances are visible.
literature
David Lee Bomgardner writes in his book " The story of the Roman amphitheater " that, among other things, the place Djebel Moraba in the heart of the pertica Carthagienensium built a theater.
- Claude Lepelley: Les Cités de l'Afrique romaine au Bas-Empire , Études augustiniennes publishing house, 1981, ISBN 2851210297