Ponte Zitha
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.J. Mattingly Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: D.J. Mattingly Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 12, 2023 12:10 PM
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History
A Roman road station and eventually, according to the Antonine Itinerary, a municipium. It is presumed to have been located at the southern terminus of the Roman-era causeway that connected the Tunisian mainland to the island of Meninx (modern Gerba) at al-Kantara.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/344286
33.6265042146, 10.9486417037
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Uncertain: OSM Location of modern roundabout at southern terminus of modern causeway (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Ad Pontem (30 BC - AD 640)
- Ponte Zitha communicates with Causeway connecting Meninx (Gerba) to mainland (unspecified date range)
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station (road or coastal)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 35 C1 *Ad Pontem
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: el-Kantara, Trik el-Djemmal TUN
D.J. Mattingly, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Ponte Zitha: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/344286> [accessed: 26 April 2024]
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