Seressi (Oum el Abouad)

SERESSI (Oum El Abouad), ancient Africa Proconsularis, modern Tunisia.

COORDINATES: About 36º09’58.52’’N // 9º46’26.40’’E

TIPOLOGY: Roman theatre. Urban.

DATE: Imperial Roman times.

TRANFORMATIONS:

CAPACITY:

CAVEA: Facing south-west. Three rows of seat preserved.

ORCHESTRA: 22 m. diameter.

STAGE BUILDING: 22x12 m.

LOCATION: Theatre remains are west of ancient town. Oum El Abouad is in C46 road, 85 klm. north-east from Mactaris.

MY BEDSIDE TABLE: Lachaux, Jean-Claude. “Théâtres et amphithéâtres d’Afrique Proconsulaire”. Aix en Provence, Édisud, 1979. // Sear, Frank; “Roman theatres: an architectural study”. Oxford University Press, 2006.// Ciancio Rossetto, Paola; Giuseppina Pisani Sartorio (eds); “Teatri Greci e Romani: alle origini del linguaggio rappresentato”. Rome: SEAT, 1995.
 

 

 

OUT OF PRINT:

“Heroically
one hero strips his heroism to the air
to smoke a little of sad, lonely
in exile”.
     -Youssef Rzouga”-