Roman Heritage Routes

Septem

Pleiades ID: 275703

settlement port

Description

Now the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Septem is an ancient port whose phases are not entirely clear owing to modern overburden. The city was the seat of a bishopric in the Byzantine period and was the last of Morocco's cities to recognize the authority of the emperor at the time of the Arab conquest.

See Further

BAtlas 28 D2 Septem
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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Villada Paredes 1992, 1217-35
PECS (Perseus), CEUTA (“Septem Fratres”) Morocco

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Wikipedia (English) Ceuta
Wikipedia: the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit (2001-), Ceuta.

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Creators & Contributors

M. Euzennat DARMC R. Talbert R. Warner Jeffrey Becker Sean Gillies Tom Elliott

Citation Information

M. Euzennat. "Septem" Pleiades, 08 May 2015. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/275703.

Last modified: 2015-05-08T13:40:00Z

Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (PECS)

PECS Reference

CEUTA (“Septem Fratres”) Morocco.

The ancient city is covered over by the modern one. Repairs and construction work have uncovered some underlying ruins, as yet unidentified, in the cathedral quarter, and traces of a Roman necropolis. Among the remains are the base of a sarcophagus, carved in marble; a bronze statuette of Hercules; some coins, and a great quantity of pottery. A bishopric in the Byzantine era, Septem was the last Moroccan city to recognize the authority of the emperor at the time of the Arab conquest.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

C. Posac Mon, Estudio arqueologico de Ceuta (1962); “Una necropolis romana descubierta en Ceuta,” IX Congreso nacional de Arqueologia, Valladolid, 1965 (1966) 331-33.

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Nearby Points of Interest

Monte Hacho

2452m away

Ceuta

Ancient