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Surroundings:

Henchir-Guennara - Mausoleum ?

Location:

  • Tunisia, Dar el Haj Ahmed
  • geo:36.280903,9.910955
  • Location ± 100-500 m.

Period or year:

  • -5x / unknown

Class:

  • City
  • invisible

Identifiers:

Annotations

Municipium Augustum Semta in Africa Proconsularis is identified with ruins at Henchir Zemba (Dzemda)  Semta was the seat of an ancient bishopric in the ecclesiastical province of Carthage.

See:

  1. http://edh-www.adw.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrift/HD028720
  2. Brent D. Shaw, Sacred Violence. African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine, Cambridge University Press, 2011, map. 3

Nearby

Vicus Annaeus

Vicus Annaeus

Henchir-i-Tahouna (1 km)

Henchir-i-Tahouna

Henchir-Dzemda (2 km)

Bizantine fort.


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