Centenarium Aqua Frigida

fort · 300 AD – 2100 AD

The ancient name of this fortified grain-house is known only from a Latin inscription describing its restoration by a governor of Mauretaniae Caesariensis in the mid 290s CE under Diocletain and his tetrarchic colleagues. The inscription's findspot, near a spring in Algeria's Kefrida Pass depression, is close to remains of Roman fortifications noticed by French scholars in the 19th century on either side of the pass. They presumably guarded a road that ran south from Muslubium, as well as water sources (the "Aqua Frigida" itself?) supplying Muslubium via a recently discovered aqueduct (Ouaret Ladjouze). The modern toponymic component "K'frida" presumably reflects the ancient "Frigida".

Coordinates
36.56660, 5.25009
Also known as
Tala K'frida, Tala Kafrida (arq), centenarium Aqua Frigida (la)
Dating
attested

Sources

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