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Gigti

Bou Grara (Barrington)

Gigti, called Gigthis in its own inscriptions, lay on the Lesser Syrtes at Bou Grara in Tunisia and was probably a Phoenician or Punic foundation. Later it may have been the chief town of the Cinithi, the allies of the rebel Tacfarinas. In the second century it received Latin rights, and under Antoninus Pius it became a municipium, a self-governing town. Remarkably, its honorary monuments still used the Punic language in Roman imperial times, alongside the Latin. A bishop is recorded in 411, and the splendid ruins were excavated between 1901 and 1905.

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