Historical place profile
Thabudeos/Tabudium Oppidum
A tell settlement, known today as Tehouda, located in modern Algeria and mentioned by Pliny the Elder. Archaeological remains at the site provide evidence for mud-brick fortification walls and might be consistent with a sixth century reoccupation and Byzantine garrison of a "Dabousis" recorded by Procopius.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:334632
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:334632
- Place type
- fortified-settlement, settlement, tell
- Coordinates
- 34.802137, 5.894947
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A tell settlement, known today as Tehouda, located in modern Algeria and mentioned by Pliny the Elder. Archaeological remains at the site provide evidence for mud-brick fortification walls and might be consistent with a sixth century reoccupation and Byzantine garrison of a "Dabousis" recorded by Procopius.
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: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 34 D3 Thabudeos/Tabudium Oppidum
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