Hadrumetum

Hadrumetum
A 3rd-century mosaic discovered at Hadrumetum depicting Vergil and his Aeneid between the muses Clio and Melpomene. (Bardo Museum)
Hadrumetum is located in Tunisia
Hadrumetum
Shown within Tunisia
LocationTunisia
RegionSousse Governorate
Coordinates35°49′28″N 10°38′20″E / 35.824444°N 10.638889°E / 35.824444; 10.638889

Hadrumetum,[1] also known by many variant spellings and names, was a Phoenician colony that pre-dated Carthage. It subsequently became one of the most important cities in Roman Africa before Vandal and Umayyad conquerors left it ruined. In the early modern period, it was the village of Hammeim, now part of Sousse, Tunisia.

A number of punic steles were found during excavations at the site of the modern day Église Notre-Dame-de-l'Immaculée-Conception de Sousse [fr].

  1. ^ Enc. Brit. (1911), p. 802.