Miliana

Description

Zucchabar was an ancient city of Mauretania Caesariensis with Punic origins. The modern Algerian community of Miliana lies atop and around the largely unexcavated ancient site. Epigraphic evidence indicates that the Roman emperor Augustus established a veteran colony there.

Evidence

• Plin., NH (Mayhoff: PHI) 5.21,2

  Plinius Secundus Maior, C. Naturalis Historiae. Edited by Karl Friedrich Theodor Mayhoff. Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. Lipsiae: Teubner, 1906. http://latin.packhum.org/loc/978/1/0.

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• Amm. Marc. (Clark/Rolfe: Perseus) 29.5.20

  Ammianus Marcellinus. Ammianus Marcellinus: History. Edited by Charles Upson Clark and John Carew Rolfe. 3 vols. Loeb Classical Library 300, 315, 331. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1935. https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:2007.01.0081.

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• EDCS 15700149 = AE 1940, 20

  Clauss, Manfred, Anne Kolb, Wolfgang A. Slaby, and Barbara Woitas, eds. Epigraphik-Datenbank  Clauss / Slaby. Eichstätt: Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, n.d. http://www.manfredclauss.de/.

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• Ptol. (Nobbe: Hathi) 4.2.25

  Ptolemy. Claudii Ptolemaei geographia. Edited by Karl Friedrich August Nobbe. 3 in 2 vols. Lipsiae: Sumptibus et typis Caroli Tauchnitii, 1843. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/002504277.

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See Further

• BAtlas 30 D4 Zucchabar

  Talbert, Richard J. A., ed. Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43970336.

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• AAA 13.70

  Gsell, S. Atlas Archéologique de l’Algérie. Algiers, Paris: Gouverment Général de l’Algérie; Adolphe Jourdan; Fontemoing et Co., 1911. http://bibliotheque-numerique.inha.fr/viewer/21113/?#page=1&viewer=picture.

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• Desanges 1980 179

  Desanges, Jehan. Pline l’Ancien. Histoire Naturelle, Livre V, 1re Partie: 1-46 (Géographie : L’Afrique Du Nord). Collection Budé. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1980. https://www.lesbelleslettres.com/livre/9782251011530/histoire-naturelle-livre-v-1re-partie.

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• Wikipedia (English) Miliana

  Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia That Anyone Can Edit. Wikimedia Foundation, 2001. https://en.wikipedia.org.

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• New Pauly Succhabar

  Hubert Cancik, Helmuth Schneider, Manfred Landfester, Christine F. Salazar, and Francis G. Gentry, eds. Brill’s New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Brill, 2015. https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/browse/brill-s-new-pauly.

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