Taricheiai/Zouchis
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).
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Feb 28, 2023 11:15 AM
An ancient settlement located at the eastern end of the Zouchis Limne (modern Bahiret el Bibane on the Tunisian coast). The modern name of the site is Henchir el-Mdeina.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/344500
33.181241, 11.438132
- Central Point:
- Imagery Location of visible remains (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Henchir el-Mdeina (Arabic, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
- Praesidium (AD 300 - AD 640)
- Taricheiai (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Zeucharis (330 BC - AD 300)
- Zouchis (Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 300)
- None
- Uncertain: Chouzis/Chouchis same as Taricheiai/Zouchis (unspecified date range)
settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 35 D1 Taricheiai/Zouchis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Henchir el-Mdeina TUN
D.J. Mattingly, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Taricheiai/Zouchis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/344500> [accessed: 07 July 2025]
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