Aggar (Henchir Sidi Amara)

AGGAR (Henchir Sidi Amara), ancient Africa Proconsularis, modern Tunisia.

COORDINATES: 35º51’21.73’’ N // 9º31’04.00’’ E

TIPOLOGY: Probably a Roman theatre or odeon.
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CAVEA: Facing north-east. It does not seem a big theatre; Maenianum: Ima cavea have remains of six cunei but probably had eight with three rows of seats; In Summa cavea there are remains of three cunei but probably had eight too, there are remains of eight rows of seats.
ORCHESTRA: Balteus is preserved.
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LOCATION: Ancient Aggar is about 60 klm. east of Maktar. 6 klm. west from Al-Waslatiyah, on the road c-73, just on the right of a big road curve.
MY BEDSIDE TABLE: Chase, Raymond G. “Ancient Hellenistic and Roman amphitheatres, stadiums and theatres. The way they look now”. Portsmouth, Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2002.

OUT OF PRINT: The only reference to Aggar´s ancient theatre that I have found it was in Raymond Chase´s “Ancient Hellenistic and Roman amphitheatres, stadiums and theatres” , in that wonderful book you can find two photos. I have not found something more about it. When I visited Henchir Sidi Amara, some humble houses scattered in the middle of the field; I gave some walk round and when I found a boy tried to explained, making some pictures in my notebook, he took me to the ancient theatre remains. And he did, behind a big cacti it was the jewel, a little theatre lost in the heart of Tunisia.