Ad Plumbaria was a civitas (town) of the Roman North Africa.E.W.B. Fentress, R. Warner, R. Talbert, T. Elliott, Ad Plumbaria, a Pleiades name resource. The town flourished during AD 300–640.Barrington Atlas location 2000, p. 489 (pl. 31 unlocated).
The town is shown on the Tabula Peutingeriana,Johannes Dominicus Podocatharos Christianopulos, Conradus Peutinger, Tabula itineraria militaris Romana antiqua Theodosiana et peutingeriana(Cherubinus, 1809) page iii. as being on the road to Hippo Regius.Matthias-Petrus Katancic, Orbis antiques ex tabula itineraria, quae Theodosii Imperatoris et ..., Volume 1(Universitas, 1824)page ixxxviii.
The presumed ruins of the town were discovered in the mid-1800s in the middle of the Lake of Fetzara.
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