Zian, North Africa

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Cities of Tunisia.

Zian, also known as Zitha, is a locality and archaeological site near

Bou Gharain south Tunisia
.

The site represents the

The
Bou Ghara). The Roman town remains largely unexcavated.[4]
A small bust of Claudius was erected in the forum. The town had a
amphorae making industry from the 1st to the 3rd century.[6]
The ruins of Zitha now known as Henchir Zian have revealed a number of inscriptions[7] At some point in late antiquity the civitas was elevated to be a municipality.

References

  1. ^ William Hazlitt, The Classical Gazetteer: a Dictionary of Ancient Geography, Sacred and Profane (1851). p377.
  2. Joseph-Anatole Toulotte
    , Géographie de l'Afrique chrétienne: Byzacène et Tripolitaine (Montreuil-sur-Mer, 1894 )
  3. ^ R Duncan-Jones. equestrian rank in the cities of the African provinces under the principate.(1967)
  4. ^ David J. Mattingly, Tripolitania (Routledge, 2 Sep. 2003) p215.
  5. ^ Victoria Leitch,Reconstructing history through pottery: the contribution of Roman N African cookwares Journal of Roman Archaeology Vol. 26 2013, pp. 281-306.
  6. ^ Karen Heslin, Emerging Markets: Import Replacement in Roman North Africa , Bollettino di Archeologia on line I 2010/ Volume speciale B / B10 / 6.
  7. ^ Zeïneb Benzina Ben Abdallah , Catalogue des inscriptions latines païennes du musée du Bardo (1986) Vol92.