Die Brücke über die Majrada in Chimtou

Ulrike Hess; Klaus Müller; Mustapha Khanoussi

doi:10.34780/simitthus.v5i0.1000

Die Brücke über die Majrada in Chimtou

https://doi.org/10.34780/simitthus.v5i0.1000

Authors

Ulrike Hess

Klaus Müller

Mustapha Khanoussi

Synopsis

At Chimtou, an extensive area of ruins bears witness to one of the biggest Roman bridge constructions in North Africa. The eminent strategic importance of this region led to the risky use in adverse conditions of highly elaborate yet still not perfected construction methods, so that its collapse a few hundred years later could not be averted in spite of immense stabilization measures. The volume discusses questions of building archaeology, locates the bridge archaeologically in the province’s developing road network, and evaluates the inscriptions that were found above all in the spolia material of the embankment walls.

Keywords:

antiker Brückenbau, antike Baukonstruktion, Infrastruktur im antiken Nordafrika, Wasserbau, Zerstörungskraft des Wassers

Chapters

Préambule
1 Einleitung

Klaus Müller
2 Les ponts romains de Simitthus/Chimtou sur le Bagrada/ oued Majrada. Une contribution à l’étude des ponts routiers de la province romaine d’Afrique proconsulaire

Mustapha Khanoussi
3 Die Brücke und ihre Geschichte

Ulrike Hess
4 Baubeschreibung

Ulrike Hess, Klaus Müller
5 Restauration du pons novus ou construction d’un 3e pont ?

Mustapha Khanoussi
6 Rekonstruktion

Ulrike Hess, Klaus Müller
7 Resümee

Klaus Müller
8 Anhang – Tabellen 1–9
Abkürzungsverzeichnis
Abbildungsnachweis
Tafeln 1–32
Beilagen 1–3