Limisa
Limisa (today Aïn-Lemsa) is a town and archaeological site in
Roman Catholic
diocese.
The street pattern of the village is fairly regular in its layout and terrace fields move down the hill from the town to the nearby
Ksar Lemsa. The Cave Mine
is nearby.
History
During antiquity, Limisa was a Roman-Berber civitas in the province of Byzacena. The remains of the town have been identified with ruins at Henchir-Boudja near modern Limisa. Little is known of the ancient Roman city of Limisa. A few excavations have been carried out and only the
emperor Septimius Severus then as a Municipium
sometime before 208.
From an architectural point of view, epigraphy mentions an arch and the restoration of thermal baths built under Constantine at the end of the 4th century.
According to
The site was excavated between 1966 and 1969 by K. Belkhodja.
Ksar Lemsa
At Henchir-Boudja may be the ruins of a
References
- ^ Zeïneb Benzina Ben Abdallah, « Catalogue des inscriptions latines inédites de Limisa (Ksar Lemsa) », Antiquités africaines 40-41, éd. CNRS Éditions, Paris, 2004-2005, pp. 99-203
- JSTOR 41857007.
- Victor of Vita, History of the Persecution by the Vandals; 30.10.
- ^ Michael Greenhalgh, The Military and Colonial Destruction of the Roman Landscape of North Africa (Brill, 2014) p. 261.
- ^ Furni at New Advent Catholic Encyclopedia.
- ^ Thomas Ludlow,A sketch of the cheid results of the Archaeological study in 1884.
- ISBN 1844153584) p. 51 (1st ed. 1955; 2nd ed. 1966).