Henchir-Merelma

Henchir-Merelma is a locality and archaeological site in the Mahdia Governorate of Tunisia.

The ruins at Henchir-Merelma are near the Cherita River and Sebkhet de Sidi El Hani lakes and date from the time of the Roman Empire and is tentatively identified with Aelioe[1] a civitas of the Roman Province of Byzacena.

According to the Antonine Itinerary, Aeliae was on the Roman Road from Althiburos To Thysdrus.[2][3][4] Ruins at Ksour-el-Maïete tentatively identified with Germaniciana[5] and Henchir-Bir-El-Menadla would indicate a series of way stations and accord with the description in the Antonine Itinerary.

References
  1. Bulletin Archéologique du Comité des travaux historiques Et scientifiques(1900) p126.
  2. Pierre Salama, Les voies romaines de l'Afrique du Nord, Algiers, 1951.
  3. Itinéraire d'Antonin, éd. d'O. Cuntz, Leipzig, 1929 (1990 ISBN 3-519-04273-8).
  4. Pierre Salama, Les voies romaines de l'Afrique du Nord, Alger, 1951 (with a map of 1949).
  5. Bulletin Archéologique du Comité des travaux historiques Et scientifiques (1900) p126.


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