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Centenarium Aqua Frigida

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: E.W.B. Fentress
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Oct 30, 2025 09:22 PM History
The ancient name of this fortified grain-house is known only from a Latin inscription describing its restoration by a governor of Mauretaniae Caesariensis in the mid 290s CE under Diocletain and his tetrarchic colleagues. The inscription's findspot, near a spring in Algeria's Kefrida Pass depression, is close to remains of Roman fortifications noticed by French scholars in the 19th century on either side of the pass. They presumably guarded a road that ran south from Muslubium, as well as water sources (the "Aqua Frigida" itself?) supplying Muslubium via a recently discovered aqueduct (Ouaret Ladjouze). The modern toponymic component "K'frida" presumably reflects the ancient "Frigida".

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305059

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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 31 C3 Centenarium Aqua Frigida

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tala K'frida


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E.W.B. Fentress, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Centenarium Aqua Frigida: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305059> [accessed: 15 November 2025]

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