Road station
Mubsi
Henchir-Mest
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Mubsi is Musti, now Henchir Mest near Le Krib in Tunisia, a native town on the great road from Carthage to Sicca Veneria that passed from Punic rule to the Numidian king Masinissa before becoming a Roman municipium. Inscriptions name temples of Juno, Ceres, Fortuna and other deities, behind whom Punic gods partly hide, and remains of a fine triumphal arch survive. Nearby, by the river Bagradas, the Roman general Regulus was said to have killed a monstrous serpent.