El Kenissia is a locality in Tunisia, North Africa.
El Kenissia is 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) south of Hadrumetum and is notable for the ruins of Civitas Pophtensis, a civitas of Roman North Africa, which include a Punic era temple complex, [1] which was excavated by the French, [2] [3] [4] [5] and a Roman Era theater. [6]
See also
References
- ^ Paul Lachlan MacKendrick, The North African Stones Speak (UNC Press Books, 1 Dec. 2000) p21.
- ^ Carlton D, Les Fouilles D'El Kenissia (Ernest Leroux , 1906).
- ^ Colette Picard and Gilbert Ch. Picard , LE SANCTUAIRE PUNIQUE DE CIRTA Revue Archéologique Sixième Série, vol47 (Jan-Jun 1956), pp. 196-199.
- ^ Dexter Hoyos, A Companion to the Punic Wars ( John Wiley & Sons, 26 May 2015) p451.
- ^ Leslie Dossey, Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa ( University of California Press, 2010) p224.
- ^ CIVITAS POPHTENSIS, Ksiba Sousse, Kenissia, el-Knissia.
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