Thysdrus
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: R.B. Hitchner
Creators: R.B. Hitchner
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Warner, Sean Gillies
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jul 30, 2023 11:29 PM
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History
Thysdrus (modern El Djem, Tunisia) was a Punic and Roman city of North Africa. It flourished in the second century A.D. and built its massive amphitheater in the third century. After an abortive revolt in A.D. 238, the city was destroyed by soldiers loyal to Maximinus Thrax.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/324835
35.2960575, 10.707584
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 15166 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- Thysdrus connection Untitled (unspecified date range)
- Thysdrus connection Untitled (unspecified date range)
- Amphitheatre of El Jem located at Thysdrus (unspecified date range)
settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 33 G2 Thysdrus
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: el-Djem
R.B. Hitchner, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Warner, and Sean Gillies, 'Thysdrus: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/324835> [accessed: 05 February 2025]
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