Petra/Fundus Petrensis
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).
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May 20, 2025 06:17 PM
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History
As attested by an inscription found on the site in 1901 and a passage in Ammianus, this fortified country estate was built by one Sammac, son of Nubel, whose brother Firmus assassinated him and raised a revolt against the Romans in the 370s CE. The modern placename associated with the site is M'lakou; it is located near Ighzar Amoqrane in Algeria's Kabylia province.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305129
36.520732, 4.62492
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery Location: M’lakou ancient site (AD 300 - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Fundus Petrensis (Latin, AD 300 - AD 399)
- Petra (Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- praesidium Sammacis (Latin, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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- إغزار أمقران (Ighzar Amoqrane: Arabic, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- M'lakou (French, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
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fort, villa, archaeological site
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 31 B3 Petra
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: M'lakou
E.W.B. Fentress, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Petra/Fundus Petrensis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305129> [accessed: 24 June 2025]
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