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African urbanism writ small

The 400-odd towns of Roman North Africa present a bewildering and massive dataset, ranging from a few walls and a single inscription that somehow identifies the site as a fullfledged town, to the imposing ruins of sites like Volubilis, Thamugadi, and Sufetula. Their publication is naturally spotty: those we know best were subject to massive clearances during the early 20th c. that stripped their stratigraphy and left them to decay, with, at best, a plan and, of course, a full catalog of their inscriptions. In this rather daunting panorama, the town of Thugga (modern Dougga) has been comparatively well served. Together with its territory, it has benefited in the last 20 years from the attention of a very distinguished array of archaeologists: Samir Aounallah, Aïcha Ben Abed, JeanClaude Golvin, Mustapha Khanoussi, Louis Maurin, Stefan Ritter, Sophie Saint-Amans, and Philipp von Rummel have carried out excavations, Mariette de Vos Raaijmakers a remarkable survey.