Thenae
 Ruins of the Roman thermae of Thaenae | |
  Shown within Tunisia | |
| Location | Sfax Governorate, Tunisia |
|---|---|
| Coordinates | 34°41′14.4″N 10°43′13.8″E / 34.687333°N 10.720500°E |
| Type | Settlement |
Thenae or Thenai (
Name
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The city was founded with the
into Latin variously as Thenae, Thaena, and Thaenae. Strabo called the town Thena (ἡ Θένα)[6] and Ptolemy called it both Thaina (Θαίνα)[4] and Theaenae (Θέαιναι).[7] At a later period it became a Roman colony with the name of Aelia Augusta Mercurialis.[8]
History
Thenae was founded as a
Carthaginian and then Roman control during the time of the Punic Wars
.
Thenae issued its own
Punic characters.[3]
In the surviving ruins, there are a
bath house, a wealthy house (domus), city walls, lower-class housing, and an early Christian basilica.[9]
Bishopric
Thenae was the
Latin
: Thenitanum Concilium). There are six documented bishops of the ancient diocese:
- Eucrazio, who assisted the 256 council in Carthage called by St Cyprianto discuss the question concerning the lapsii;
- Latonio (Catholic) and Securo (411 council in Carthage;
- Pascasio, who took part in the and was afterwards exiled;
- Pontian, who intervened in the 525 council in Carthage; and
- Felix, who attended the antimonotelite council of 646.
Today, Thenae survives as a
Roman Catholic Church. Modern bishops have been:[10]
- Thomas Franz Xaver Spreiter (1906–1944)
- Louis Francis Kelleher (1945–1946)
- Thomas Joseph McDonough(1947–1960)
- Paolo Ghizzoni(1961–1972)
- Andrzej Maria Deskur (1974–1985)
- Marian Duś (1985–current), former auxiliary bishop of Warsaw
See also
References
Citations
- ^ Leone (2007), p. 354.
- ^ Ghaki (2015), p. 67.
- ^ a b c d e Head & al. (1911).
- ^ a b Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 1.15.2.
- ^
Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Thenae". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
- ^ Strabo. Geographica. Vol. xvii. p. 831. Page numbers refer to those of Isaac Casaubon's edition.
- ^ Ptolemy. The Geography. Vol. 4.3.11.
- ^ Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Thenae". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
- ^ Chapot (1928), p. 385.
- ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1).
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). "Thenae". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray.
Bibliography
- Chapot, Victor (1928), The Roman World, Biblo & Tannen Publishers.
- Ghaki, Mansour (2015), "Toponymie et Onomastique Libyques: L'Apport de l'Écriture Punique/Néopunique" (PDF), La Lingua nella Vita e la Vita della Lingua: Itinerari e Percorsi degli Studi Berberi, Studi Africanistici: Quaderni di Studi Berberi e Libico-Berberi, vol. No. 4, Naples: Unior, pp. 65–71, ISSN 2283-5636, archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-04-28, retrieved 2018-11-03). (in French)
{{citation}}:|volume=has extra text (help - Head, Barclay; et al. (1911), "Byzacene", Historia Numorum (2nd ed.), Oxford: Clarendon Press, p. 876.
- Leone, Anna (2007), Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest, Edipuglia, ISBN 9788872284988.