Roman Africa; an outline of the history of the Roman occupation of North Africa, based chiefly upon inscriptions and monumental remains in that country. With 30 reproductions of original drawings by the author, and two maps (1902)
Graham, Alexander · London Longmans, Green · leaf 182
date between Christian and Moslemfor supremacy in that country. Its early history is veiled inobscurity, and its name is supposed by Bruce and other travel-lers to have been derived from the Sufetes, the title held by allmagistrates in towns dependent upon Carthage.2 The modern 1 I.R.A. No. 4360.… … Africa under Antoninus Pius 123 name of the place, Sbeitla, is an Arab corruption. We learnfrom the Itinerary of Antonine that it is twenty-five miles fromSufes, changed by the Arabs into Sbiba—a city of renown inpre-Roman times. We arrived at Sbiba/ says El-Bekri in theeleventh century, a town of…
Inscriptions, Latin
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