El Kenissia Explained

El Kenissia is a locality in Tunisia, North Africa.

El Kenissia is south of Hadrumetum and is notable for the ruins of Civitas Pophtensis, a civitas of Roman North Africa, which include a Punic era temple complex,^[1] which was excavated by the French,^{[2] [3] [4] [5]} and a Roman Era theater.^[6]

See also

• Louis Carton

Notes and References

1. Paul Lachlan MacKendrick, The North African Stones Speak (UNC Press Books, 1 Dec. 2000) p21.
2. Carlton D, Les Fouilles D'El Kenissia (Ernest Leroux, 1906).
3. Colette Picard and Gilbert Ch. Picard, LE SANCTUAIRE PUNIQUE DE CIRTA Revue Archéologique Sixième Série, vol47 (Jan-Jun 1956), pp. 196-199.
4. Dexter Hoyos, A Companion to the Punic Wars (John Wiley & Sons, 26 May 2015) p451.
5. [Leslie Dossey]
6. http://www.theatrum.de/903.html CIVITAS POPHTENSIS, Ksiba Sousse, Kenissia, el-Knissia