Tamuda revisitada. De la primera destrucción ¿sertoriana? al foso del castellum (2014-2018)

Abstract

In recent years, new archaeological research has been carried out in the mauretanian city and in the roman military camp of Tamuda (northern Morocco), under the EAT project(Economy and Crafts at Tamuda). This paper presents a synthesis of the main previous results (recovery of the dossiers of the old excavations of Montalbán, Quintero and Tarradell, and new inscriptions associated with the so calledEastern Balneum); and mainly the unpublished results of the last interventions. Especially the finding of a violent and widespread destruction of the Oriental Quarter (“Barrio Oriental”) of Tamuda, dated in the first half of the Ist century BC, documented stratigraphically in two buildings with well-preserved material contexts. This tabula rasa of the site could be associated with the presence of Sertorius in the North African region, and with the episodes linked to the succession of the Mauritanian monarchs; and the first data on the possible fossa (perimetral defense ditch) of the Roman military camp, abandoned in the 5th century CE, which is one of the few documented ones in the castella and castra of Mauretania Tingitana.

Keywords

• Tamuda
• Mauretanian destruction
• Sertorius
• fossa
• recent archaeological digs