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Cuicul

a Pleiades place resource

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

Last modified Jun 19, 2020 12:22 PM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=1, dare:feature=major settlement, UWHS

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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Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305068

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
36.3176905, 5.73668362

Locations:

DARMC location 12112 (30 BC - AD 640)
DARE Location (30 BC - AD 640)

Names:

Cuicul (30 BC - AD 640)
Djemila (English, modern)
جيميلة (Djémila: Arabic, modern)
Ruines de Cuiculum (French, modern)

Cuicul makes connections with:

None

Cuicul receives connections from:

Temple of the Severan family at Cuicul (30 BC - AD 300)
Roman theater at Cuicul at Cuicul (unspecified date range)

Place type:
settlement

References:

See Further:

Related:

Wikidata Q457362: Djémila

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 31 D4 Cuicul

Details:

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."

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Suggested citation:
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: 03 July 2020]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305068 |title=Places: 305068 (Cuicul) |author=Fentress, E. |accessdate=July 3, 2020 10:25 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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