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Uthina

Place Description

Uthina was a town in the province of Africa Proconsularis, now northern Tunisia. Uthina became a Roman colony of veterans of Legio XIII Gemina during the reign of Emperor Augustus. Hence, it was mentioned by Ptolemy (IV, 3, 34), Pliny the Elder, and the Tabula Peutingeriana.

From the accounts given by geographers the site seems to be the ruins that form the archeological site of Oudna, near a station on the railway from Tunis to Kef and not far from what was the World War II Oudna Airfield. These ruins occupy a surface nearly three miles in circumference, covering a hilly plateau, and commanding the left bank of the Milian wady; there are remains of a fortress, cisterns, an aqueduct, a triumphal arch, a theatre, an amphitheater, a basilica with a circular crypt, and a bridge. Many mosaics are to be found there as well.

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3 garden articles in Uthina have been published/drafted:
Africa Proconsularis/Uthina

House of Baklouti (Maison de Baklouti) (DRAFT)

The peristyle garden enclosed by a portico on four sides had a long basin, which was concave at one end, and had semicircular and rectangular niches. It occupied the central axis ...
Africa Proconsularis/Uthina

House of Icarios (Maison d'Icarios) (DRAFT)

This richly decorated house is considered as one of the most remarkable domus of Africa (Plan view, Fig.1). Twenty-four Corinthian columns that may have reached 3m high, ...
Africa Proconsularis/Uthina

House of Industrius (Maison d'Industrius) (DRAFT)

Located to the Southeast of the amphitheater, this house was laid out around a peristyle garden of 10 columns that connected by a low wall. A semicircular basin extended into the ...