CEUTA
(“Septem Fratres”) Morocco.
The
ancient city is covered over by the modern one. Repairs
and construction work have uncovered some underlying ruins, as yet unidentified, in the cathedral quarter,
and traces of a Roman necropolis. Among the remains
are the base of a sarcophagus, carved in marble; a
bronze statuette of Hercules; some coins, and a great
quantity of pottery. A bishopric in the Byzantine era,
Septem was the last Moroccan city to recognize the
authority of the emperor at the time of the Arab conquest.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
C. Posac Mon,
Estudio arqueologico de
Ceuta (1962); “Una necropolis romana descubierta en
Ceuta,”
IX Congreso nacional de Arqueologia, Valladolid, 1965 (1966) 331-33.
M. EUZENNAT