GILDA
(Souk el Arba de Sidi-Slimane) Morocco.
Ancient city of the S region of Mauretania Tingitana,
mentioned in the
Antonine Itinerary (23.4), Mela, and
Ptolemy. Its name appears stamped on some tegulae
found at the Souk el Arba of Sidi-Slimane, 1.5 km S of
the village, where remains of a Roman settlement were
discovered in a loop of the wadi Beth. The extent
of these ruins and their topography are undetermined,
but chance finds and some digging have revealed two
funerary inscriptions, a number of bronze statuettes
and fragments, coins, and an abundance of pottery. At
the village of Sidi-Slimane a Libyan inscription has been
found, and a tumulus tomb dating from the 3d-2d c.
B.C. was uncovered in early excavations.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A. Ruhlman, “Le tumulus de Sidi Slimane (Rharb),”
Bulletin de la Société de Préhistoire du
Maroc, 12 (1939) 37-70; L. Chatelain,
Le Maroc des
Romains (1944) 124-26; M. Euzennat, “Les voies romaines du Maroc dans l'Itinéraire Antonin,”
Hommages
à Albert Grenier, coll.
Latomus 58 (1962) 599-600; C.
Boube-Piccot,
Les bronze antiques du Maroc I (1969)
238-39.
M. EUZENNAT