Kastellum Turrensium/Matidianum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: E.W.B. Fentress Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: E.W.B. Fentress Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 21, 2025 11:52 PM
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History
Gsell (AAA, whence BAtlas) reports as "El Mehiriss" the findspot of a Roman inscription marking the boundaries of fields assigned to the "coloni Kasturrenses" by Matidia Minor (Trajan's grand-niece). In 2025, this locale was labeled "Mechtat Mekhiris" in Google Earth. Another inscription, found in the area of Equizeto (approximately 12 kilometers to the south) addresses another demarcation between various castelli, including one named "[M]atidianum", thus providing possibly another name for Castellum T.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305055
36.0806101929, 4.70346891178
- Representative Locations:
- BAtlas Point Location (30 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 1860 meters.
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- Kastel(lum) [M]atidianum (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Kastellum Turrensi(um) (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- Castellum Turrense (Latin, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Kastellum Matidiae (Latin, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 31 B4 *Castellum Turrense
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: el Mehiriss. Rebuffat places this "Kastellum Turrensi(um)" at "Mens, près de Bordj Medjana MS" (i.e., in the same general vicinity, but TE could not find this toponym in 2025 and the location used by Fentress in BAtlas now falls (per OpenStreetMap) just inside the Bordj Bou Arreridj district, which borders on Medjana's territory.
E.W.B. Fentress, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Kastellum Turrensium/Matidianum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305055> [accessed: 15 June 2025]
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