Historical place profile
Henchir Hnich
Discovered in 2013, this site in the modern Oued Ellouz sector of Tunisia lies 3.5km west of ancient Musti (modern Henchir Mest). Excavators interpret the site as a rural settlement of an imperial estate. The only known copy of an inscribed "lex de agris rudibus" of the emperor Hadrian was discovered here (unpublished as of January 2022).
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:546680198
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:546680198
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement
- Coordinates
- 36.347840, 9.101153
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Discovered in 2013, this site in the modern Oued Ellouz sector of Tunisia lies 3.5km west of ancient Musti (modern Henchir Mest). Excavators interpret the site as a rural settlement of an imperial estate. The only known copy of an inscribed "lex de agris rudibus" of the emperor Hadrian was discovered here (unpublished as of January 2022).
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Pleiades
Source and reuse
This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.
Research path
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