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Centenarium Aqua Frigida

The ancient name of this fortified grain-house is known only from a Latin inscription describing its restoration by a governor of Mauretaniae Caesariensis in the mid 290s CE under Diocletain and his tetrarchic colleagues. The inscription's findspot, near a spring in Algeria's Kefrida Pass depression, is close to remains of Roman fortifications noticed by French scholars in the 19th century on either side of the pass. They presumably guarded a road that ran south from Muslubium, as well as water sources (the "Aqua Frigida" itself?) supplying Muslubium via a recently discovered aqueduct (Ouaret Ladjouze). The…