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Crich-El-Oued

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Crich-El-Oued
Qarish el-Wadi
Thisiduo
Village
Nickname:
Chisiduo[1]
Crich-El-Oued is located in Tunisia
Coordinates: 36°38′37″N 9°36′15″E / 36.64361°N 9.60417°E
Country Tunisia
Governorate Béja Governorate

Crich El Oued, also known as Qarish el-Wadi, is a village in Tunisia,[2] located between Bordj Toumi and Majaz al Bab[3] (36° 41' 00" N 9° 40' 00" E) in Béja Governorate east of Tunis.[4] The village is on the Medjerda river[5][6] at the confluence with the Oued el-Ahmar and the town has a mosque[7]

Roman Ruins

The ruins west of Crich-El-Oued are the remains of the Roman city of Thisiduo otherwise Thisiduum,[8] a city of Africa Proconsularis[9] which flourished 330 BC - 640AD.

Roman Name

The original name of the town was probably Thisinduo / Thisinduum. Thomas,[10] reconstructed it thus, and recently found [11] inscriptions which have confirmed this.[12][13]

The town appears on the Tabula Peutingeriana,[14][15] and Ravenna Cosmpographica[16] The name evolved following the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb from Thisinduo to Chisiduo.[17] and then Crich.

Roman History

The history of Thisiduum is hardly known. The inscription CIL 14763 = ILS 6781 testifies to a municipium under Latin law, and to an aedile.[18] Toulotte suspects in Bishop Tadduensis of the year 646 an origin from Thisiduum.[19]

There are few remains meaningfully sited in the ruins because of reuse of the stone in the Middle Ages[20] and building over the former structures.[21] There are remains of a Roman bridge that crosses the Oued el Hamar[22] and some temples are discernible, with a number of trunks of columns, some in stone, others in white marble, littering the town. Inscriptions bear witness to at least two temples[23]

There are also separate ruins nearby at Chouigui and Goubellat and 7 km away at Medjez el Bab.

Ancient Bishopric

During the Roman Empire this part of the Medjerda river valley had a high density of bishoprics [24] with four other bishops resident within 10 kilometers of Crich El Oued.

References

  1. Back to citation Duncan Fishwick, The Imperial Cult in the Latin West, Volume III:(BRILL, 2002) p169.
  2. Back to citation Crich El Oued wiki.
  3. Back to citation Crich el Oued at mapmonde.org.
  4. Back to citation Crich El Oued.
  5. Back to citation Thisiduo
  6. Back to citation Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 32 E3
  7. Back to citation Gaston Vuillier, Tunisia (illustrated by the author) (1896).
  8. Back to citation Titular Episcopal See of Thisiduo at Gcatholic.org.
  9. Back to citation Thisiduo at Trismegistos Geo; Victor Guérin, Archaeological Journey In The Regency Of Tunis (Рипол Классик ) p183-184; R.B. Hitchner, R. Warner, R. Talbert, T. Elliott, sgilles Thisiduo at Pleiades.stoa.org.
  10. Back to citation FW THOMASThe Classical Review, Vol.5, Issue 9 November 1891, pp. 434-438.
  11. Back to citation 8007490: Thisiduum/Crich el Oued.
  12. Back to citation M Kleijwegt, Beans, baths and the barber... A sacred law from Thuburbos Maius Antiquités africaines (1994)Vol30, Num1 pp. 209-220.
  13. Back to citation R. Cagnat - A. Merlin - L. Chatelain u. a., Inscriptions latines d'Afrique (Tripolitaine, Tunisie, Maroc) (Paris 1923);
  14. Back to citation FW Thomas, The Classical Review, Vol.5, Issue 9 November 1891, pp. 434-438.
  15. Back to citation Tabula Peutingeriana.
  16. Back to citation M. Pinder, G. Parthey, Ravennatis anonymi cosmographia et Guidonis geographica (Рипол Классик, 1962) p19.
  17. Back to citation Duncan Fishwick, The Imperial Cult in the Latin West, Volume III:(BRILL, 2002) p169.
  18. Back to citation Ludwig Heinrich Friedländer, Roman Life and Manners Under the Early Empire, Volume 4 (1909, Straßburg)
  19. Back to citation http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/arachne/index.php?view[layout]=topographie_item&search[constraints][topographie][searchSeriennummer]=8007490 8007490:.
  20. Back to citation Edmond Pellissier de Reynaud, DESCRIPTION OF THE TUNIS REGENCE (Paris, Impr. Imperiale, 1853).
  21. Back to citation E. Babelon – R. Cagnat – S. Reinach, Atlas Archéologique de la Tunisie. Atlas archéologique de la Tunisie: édition spéciale des cartes topographiques publiées par le Ministère de la Guerre. accompagnée d'un texte explicatif rédigé par Mm (Paris 1893);
  22. Back to citation E. Babelon – R. Cagnat – S. Reinach, Atlas Archéologique de la Tunisie. Atlas archéologique de la Tunisie: édition spéciale des cartes topographiques publiées par le Ministère de la Guerre. accompagnée d'un texte explicatif rédigé par Mm (Paris 1893).
  23. Back to citation J. Poinssot, Archaeological trip to Tunisia. Period: 1882-1883 African Antiquities Bulletin (vol3. 1885).
  24. Back to citation Francois Decret, Early Christianity in North Africa (James Clarke & Co, 25 Dec. 2014) p85.
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