Temple
Ad Dianam
Zana (Barrington) · Aïn Zâna (Miller)
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A small temple is drawn at Ad Dianam, a town in Numidia that a Roman register of routes calls Diana Veteranorum, Diana of the veterans. Its ruins lie at Zana in Algeria, among them the remains of a triumphal arch. Probably founded in Roman times, the place first had a simple council and in 162 became a municipium, a self-governing Roman town, whose citizens set up milestones in honour of the emperor Caracalla. By the middle of the third century it had a bishop of its own. The name itself means 'at Diana's'.