El Kenissia is a locality in Tunisia, North Africa.
El Kenissia is south of Hadrumetum and is notable for the ruins of Civitas Pophtensis, a civitas of Roman North Africa, which include a Punic era temple complex,Paul Lachlan MacKendrick, The North African Stones Speak (UNC Press Books, 1 Dec. 2000) p21. which was excavated by the French,Carlton D, Les Fouilles D'El Kenissia (Ernest Leroux, 1906).Colette Picard and Gilbert Ch. Picard, LE SANCTUAIRE PUNIQUE DE CIRTA Revue Archéologique Sixième Série, vol47 (Jan-Jun 1956), pp. 196-199.Dexter Hoyos, A Companion to the Punic Wars (John Wiley & Sons, 26 May 2015) p451.Leslie Dossey, Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa (University of California Press, 2010) p224. and a Roman Era theater. CIVITAS POPHTENSIS, Ksiba Sousse, Kenissia, el-Knissia.
See also Louis Carton
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