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Studies on the "Cirtean Confederation", a unique entity in Roman Africa (2nd century BC - 3rd century AD). Scripta Antiqua Collection 159.
BERTRANDY François.

Studies on the "Cirtean Confederation", a unique entity in Roman Africa (2nd century BC - 3rd century AD). Scripta Antiqua Collection 159.

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N° d'inventaire 25815
Format 17 x 24
Détails 356 p., paperback.
Publication Bordeaux, 2022
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782356134790
The work is a collection of articles on a singular entity of Roman Africa, in the heart of northern Numidia, the “Cirtaean Confederation” (modern term), whose name is taken from its capital Cirta (Constantine in Algeria). It recalls that its creation is the fruit of a long genesis, whose origins can be traced back to the end of the 2nd century BC, even if the real attestation of its existence only dates from the beginning of the reign of Trajan. As revealed by the numerous inscriptions unearthed since the 19th century, this territory, composed of four colonies and castella, was administered autonomously with magistracies covering  functions that were often original compared to the rest of ancient Africa. Originally attached to Proconsular Africa, from the reign of Septimius Severus, the “Confederation” covered the northern part of the new province of Numidia. Its dissolution in the middle of the 3rd century was not a sudden fact, but the result of a long evolution that began under the reign of the Severi, gradually loosened the links between the colonies and the castella, which were part of it, and ended under the reign of Gallienus alone (260-268). Very early attached to Romanity, this region was the cradle of the first Roman consul of African origin, of jurisconsults, of powerful families with vast estates that contributed to the prosperity of the Cirtaean. It gave the Empire high-ranking imperial officials, great generals loyal to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Originally from Cirta, Marcus Cornelius Fronto, tutor to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, unquestionably favored his compatriots in forming an African party at the Imperial Court in the third quarter of the 2nd century. The work also presents onomastic research on a highly Romanized population, even if Punic and Libyan reminiscences sometimes appear in the cognomina. Finally, articles focus on highlighting the religious organization of the tributes paid to the emperors in the colonies and castella of this territory.
The work is a collection of articles on a singular entity of Roman Africa, in the heart of northern Numidia, the “Cirtaean Confederation” (modern term), whose name is taken from its capital Cirta (Constantine in Algeria). It recalls that its creation is the fruit of a long genesis, whose origins can be traced back to the end of the 2nd century BC, even if the real attestation of its existence only dates from the beginning of the reign of Trajan. As revealed by the numerous inscriptions unearthed since the 19th century, this territory, composed of four colonies and castella, was administered autonomously with magistracies covering  functions that were often original compared to the rest of ancient Africa. Originally attached to Proconsular Africa, from the reign of Septimius Severus, the “Confederation” covered the northern part of the new province of Numidia. Its dissolution in the middle of the 3rd century was not a sudden fact, but the result of a long evolution that began under the reign of the Severi, gradually loosened the links between the colonies and the castella, which were part of it, and ended under the reign of Gallienus alone (260-268). Very early attached to Romanity, this region was the cradle of the first Roman consul of African origin, of jurisconsults, of powerful families with vast estates that contributed to the prosperity of the Cirtaean. It gave the Empire high-ranking imperial officials, great generals loyal to the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Originally from Cirta, Marcus Cornelius Fronto, tutor to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus, unquestionably favored his compatriots in forming an African party at the Imperial Court in the third quarter of the 2nd century. The work also presents onomastic research on a highly Romanized population, even if Punic and Libyan reminiscences sometimes appear in the cognomina. Finally, articles focus on highlighting the religious organization of the tributes paid to the emperors in the colonies and castella of this territory.