Zucchabar
Zucchabar (also Succhabar ; Greek Ζουχάβαρρι Zouchabarri ) was an ancient city in the Roman province of Mauretania Caesariensis . It was located south of the capital Caesarea near today's Miliana in Algeria .
Zucchabar was, as names on inscriptions show, originally Punic influenced and under Augustus became the Roman Colonia (colonia Iulia Augusta Zucchabar) . The city secured the road from Caesarea to the interior of Mauritania.
In the 5th century, Zucchabar was the seat of a bishop. The titular bishopric of the Roman Catholic Church of the same name goes back to the diocese .
Some archaeological remains and inscriptions have been preserved from Zucchabar .
Trivia
In the film Gladiator by Ridley Scott , “Zucchabar” is mentioned as the name of a Roman province in North Africa.
swell
- Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum 8, 2, 9607-9641 (on- line ); Supplement 3, 21481-21493 ( online )
- Pliny the Elder , naturalis historia 5, 21
- Ptolemy 4, 2, 25
- Ammianus Marcellinus 29, 5, 20 ( English translation )
literature
- Werner Huss : Zucchabar. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 12/2, Metzler, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-476-01487-8 , Sp. 847.
Remarks
Coordinates: 36 ° 16 ' N , 2 ° 18' E