Dellys

Description

The ancient city of Rusuccuru was founded as a Punic settlement on the Oued Sebaou river. In the Roman period, an inscription indicates that Rusuccuru achieved the status of municipium under Septimius Severus, yet some sources continue to refer to it as a colonia.

Evidence

• TP (Talbert: CUP) 1C2 (Talbert 7)

  Talbert, Richard. “Database: Peutinger Map Names and Features, with Commentary and User’s Guide.” In Explore the Peutinger Map. Cambridge UP, 2010. http://www.cambridge.org/us/talbert/talbertdatabase/prm.html.

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• CIL VIII 2, 8995

  Corpus inscriptionum latinarum. Berolini: Apud G. Reimerum, 1862.
• Ptol (Müller: Hathi Trust) 4,2,8

  Ptolemy. Klaudiou Ptolemaiou Geographike hyphegesis = Claudii Ptolemæi Geographia. Edited by Karl Müller. 2 vols. Parisiis: Alfredo Firmin Didot, 1883. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/003477580.

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See Further

• BAtlas 30 G3 Rusuccuru

  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 6.24

  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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• Mascarello 1973

  A. Mascarello. “Archéologie à Dellys.” Revue d’histoire et de Civilisation Du Maghreb 10 (1973): 9–19.
• Desanges 1962 68

  Desanges, Jehan. Catalogue Des Tribus Africaines de l’antiquité Classique à l’ouest Du Nil. Publications de La Section d’histoire 4. Dakar, 1962. https://archive.org/details/CatalogueDesTribusAfricainesDeLantiquiteClassiqueALOuestDuNil/page/n151.
• Wikipedia (English) Dellys

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

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• ItMiller 913, 941

  Miller, Konrad. Itineraria romana: Römische Reisewege an der Hand der Tabula Peutingeriana. Stuttgart: Strecker und Schröder, 1916. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6684340.

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• ItAnt (Cuntz) 16,4 Rusuccuru colonia

  Cuntz, Otto, ed. Itineraria Antonini Augusti et Burdigalense. Itineraria Romana 1. Leipzig: Teubner, 1929. http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/936644063.
• TrecEnc RUSUCURRU

  Treccani Enciclopedia. Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani. Accessed June 6, 2022. https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/.

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• EDH G013597: Rusuccuru – Dellys

  Alföldy, Géza, and Christian Witschel, eds. Epigraphic Database Heidelberg. Heidelberg: Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1997. http://edh-www.adw.uni-heidelberg.de/.

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