RUSADDIR
(Melilla) Morocco.
An ancient
city mentioned by Pliny (
5.18), Ptolemy (4.1.12) and
the
Antonine Itinerary. A necropolis at the Cerro de
San Lorenzo shows traces of occupation dating at least
to the 2d and 1st c. B.C., during which period the city
minted its own coins, with a neo-Punic legend. Scattered
remains, now gone, show that the Roman settlement
extended W of the Old Spanish city, which no doubt held
the original Punic settlement.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
R. Fernández de Castro,
Melilla prehispánica (1945); M. Tarradell,
Marruecos púnico (1960) 63-73.
M. EUZENNAT