Ghaddhab, Ridha

Centuriation and legal status of Sullecthum (Salakta) - 2018.


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The region of Salakta is covered by a well structured Roman centuriation with distinct limits. There had been between Thapsus, Acholla and Thydrus, a zone of Roman colonization. Among all the sectors giving access to the cost, only that of Salakta was centuriated and was the object of summons for some colonizers. The inscriptions, even though scarce, reveal that, towards the end of the second or at the beginning of the third century BC, a Colonia Iulia Sullectha used to exist. It is a colony of foundation created between 46 and 27 BC. This latter is thought to be a structuring center of the region.