The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites
Richard Stillwell, William L. MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister, Stillwell, Richard, MacDonald, William L., McAlister, Marian Holland, Ed.

AÏN SCHKOR Morocco.

Roman ruins 3 km N of Volubilis. These consist of remains of a castellum occupied in the 1st and 2d c. A.D. by the cohors I Asturum et Callaecorum and rebuilt in the 3d c. by the cohors IV Tungrorum, and indistinct traces of a settlement S of this camp. The area to the W and S is extremely rich in ruins of Roman farms and agricultural villages; to the E, on the foothills of the Jebel Zerhoun, are quarries that were worked in antiquity.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

L. Chatelain, Le Maroc des Romains (1944) 119-20; M. Euzennat, “Une inscription inédite d'Aïn Schkor (Maroc),” BAC (1963-64) 137-42; G. Feray and P. Paskof, “Recherches sur les carrières romaines des environs de Volubilis,” Bulletin d'Archéologie Marocaine 6 (1966) 279-300.

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