الحضور العسكري الروماني بالأوراس : في ضوء النقائش اللاتينية و الدراسات الحديثة

Abstract EN

The occupation of the Aures by Rome was achieved in 6 AD, thanks to the successes of Cassius Cossus.

It has advanced to the limit of the Musulames country, i.

e.

to the foothills of the Aurès.

When we examine the civil or military works carried out by the Roman army in North Africa that Y has built.

The Bohec1, we can see that the lion's share goes to the Third Augustus Legion.

The only exception is the road works carried out in Tighanimin by a vexillation of the 6th Ferrata Legion, normally stationed in Syria.

These works carried out by this legion are known thanks to a famous inscription engraved at the southern exit of the Tighanimine challenge, in the valley of the el-Abiod wadi.

Since then, the inscription of Tighanimin has been considered as proof of the existence of a Roman road linking the Numidian Highlands to the Sahara through the Aurès, and among other things of the Roman military presence in the Aurès.

This inscription was first presented in 1850 by General de Saint-Arnaud, who left Khenchela, walked through the Nemenchas mountains, crossed the djebel Cherchar and descended the El-Abiod wadi to Khanga Sidi Nadji.

He went up the Cheurfa wadi to Medina, then down the El-Abiod wadi and reached the Tighanimine gorges.

It was also published by Th.

Mommsen in the t.

VIII of the Corpus InscriptionumLatinarums under number C.

12230.