December 16, at Tebessa, the ruins extend about five miles east of the town; nothing now existing but a castle of modern date, built of old materials, and the remains of an area of a temple near the river.
This is evidently intended to be supplementary to his former note; he means that nothing remained to the east of the town, save the ruins of a Byzantine fortress, and what he believed to have been the area of a temple, but which has since been excavated, and proves to be a great basilica.
His illustrations consist of three sheets—
1. An Indian-ink perspective view of the Temple of Jupiter, roughly but boldly executed ([Plate VIII.])
2. One double sheet containing a pencil sketch of the triumphal arch of Caracalla, with details and measurements ([Plate IX.])
3. An Indian-ink perspective view of one face only of the same building.
Theveste must have been a very important town of Numidia, but it is only mentioned by later writers, and not alluded to by Strabo, Pliny or Sallust. It was probably founded immediately after the Jewish War, A.D. 71. And M. Léon Renier thinks that an inscription found in the forum, and containing the letters[88]
. . . . NO AVG
. . . . P.P COS. V
AVG . . . . . .