Cuicul
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: E.W.B. Fentress
Creators: E.W.B. Fentress
Contributors:
Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Valeria Vitale, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Jonathan Fu, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Gabriel Bodard
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 25, 2020 08:02 PM
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History
A Berbero-Roman town of North Africa (modern Djémila in Algeria). Sometimes labeled on maps and in travel information as "Curculum".
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305068
36.3176905, 5.73668362
- DARE Location (30 BC - AD 640)
- DARMC location 12112 (30 BC - AD 640)
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- Cuicul (30 BC - AD 640)
- Djemila (English, modern)
- جيميلة (Djémila: Arabic, modern)
- Ruines de Cuiculum (French, modern)
- None
- Temple of the Severan family located at Cuicul (30 BC - AD 300)
- Roman theater at Cuicul located at Cuicul (unspecified date range)
settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 31 D4 Cuicul
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Djemila
Maps, travel websites, and tourist information sometimes refer to this site as "Curculum" although we have so far not found any reliable ancient text that provides evidence for this name variant. It may represent an attempt at reconstruction of a Latin name on the basis of the form provided in Greek by Ptolemy; we would be grateful for bibliographic references that provide more information about this variant. Here is what Werner Huss writes about the ancient names for this site in Brill's New Pauly (sub "Cuicul"): "Attested forms of the name: Κοúλκουα, Ptol. 4,3,29; Cuiculi, It. Ant. 29,1; Culchul, Tab. Peut. 2,4; Chulchul, Geogr. Rav. 39,25."
E.W.B. Fentress, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Valeria Vitale, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Jonathan Fu, R. Warner, R. Talbert, and Gabriel Bodard, 'Cuicul: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305068> [accessed: 14 April 2021]
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