Ad Plumbaria Explained

Ad Plumbaria was a civitas (town) of the Roman North Africa.[1] The town flourished from AD 300-AD 640.[2]

The town is shown on the Tabula Peutingeriana,[3] as being on the road to Hippo Regius.[4]

The presumed ruins of the town were discovered in the mid-1800s in the middle of the Lake of Fetzara.[5]

Notes and References

  1. E.W.B. Fentress, R. Warner, R. Talbert, T. Elliott, Ad Plumbaria, a Pleiades name resource.
  2. https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/311072/batlas-location Barrington Atlas location
  3. Johannes Dominicus Podocatharos Christianopulos, Conradus Peutinger, Tabula itineraria militaris Romana antiqua Theodosiana et peutingeriana(Cherubinus, 1809) page iii.
  4. Matthias-Petrus Katancic, Orbis antiques ex tabula itineraria, quae Theodosii Imperatoris et ..., Volume 1(Universitas, 1824)page ixxxviii.
  5. Book: Hodder . Edwin . All the World Over, Volume 1 . 1876 . T. Cook . 459 . Feb 7, 2019.

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