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Project Lead : Anissa Yelles (AOROC)
GIS Specialist : Christophe Batardy (AOROC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Timgad Archives offers a critical and original reinterpretation of the urban archaeology of the Roman city of Timgad (Algeria), based on a cross-analysis of excavation archives produced between the 1880s and 1960s.
The project is grounded in a serial inventory and comparative study of a vast body of historical documentation, most of which remains unpublished and underexplored\u00a0: excavation notebooks, plans, photographs, models, drawings, and casts. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach, drawing on urban archaeology, building archaeology, and the history of archaeological practices and knowledge production.
This approach aims in particular to reconstruct the main phases of intervention on this major site of Roman heritage in North Africa, and to assess the structural transformations brought about by the excavations\u2014restorations, anastylosis, the disappearance or redesign of certain areas\u2014as well as their material and interpretive impact on our current understanding of the ancient city. The urban study will focus especially on major public buildings and the road network, through a critical reading of historical sources cross-referenced with analysis of the preserved structures.
The project stands out for its innovative approach, prioritizing an exhaustive analysis of the archives at the scale of the entire urban fabric. This alternative method seeks to renew the study of urban archaeology in a provincial city of Roman Africa, by reconstructing its spatial and architectural transformations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fig. 1\u00a0: General restitution of Timgad by Jean-Claude Golvin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fig. 2\u00a0: Aerial view of Timgad, 1953, Defense Historical Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bibliography – Timgad<\/summary>\n

Primary sources and ancient publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Boeswillwald, \u00c9mile, Ren\u00e9 Cagnat et Albert Ballu. Timgad : une cit\u00e9 africaine sous l\u2019Empire romain. Paris : H. Laurens, 1891\u20131905.
\u2022 Ballu, Albert. \u00ab Les fouilles de Timgad \u00bb. Bulletin Monumental 65, 1901.
\u2022 Cagnat, Ren\u00e9 et Albert Ballu. Mus\u00e9e de Timgad. Paris : E. Renoux, 1902.
\u2022 Ballu, Albert. Guide illustr\u00e9 de Timgad. Antique Thamugadi. Paris : Imprimerie Nationale, 1902.
\u2022 Cagnat, Ren\u00e9. Carthage, Timgad, T\u00e9bessa et les villes antiques d\u2019Afrique du Nord. Paris : Leroux, 1909.
\u2022 Ballu, Albert. Guide illustr\u00e9 de Timgad. Antique Thamugadi. Paris : Imprimerie Nationale, 1911.
\u2022 Groslambert, Agn\u00e8s. L\u2019arch\u00e9ologie alg\u00e9rienne de 1895 \u00e0 1915 : Les rapports d\u2019Albert Ballu publi\u00e9s au Journal officiel de la R\u00e9publique fran\u00e7aise de 1896 \u00e0 1916. Lyon : CERGR, Collection du Centre d\u2019\u00c9tudes Romaines et Gallo-romaines, nouvelle s\u00e9rie, no 16, 1997.

Historical and archaeological studies<\/strong>
\u2022 Pfeiffer, Homer F. \u00ab The Roman Library at Timgad \u00bb. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 9 (1931) : 157\u2013165. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.2307\/4238558<\/a>
\u2022 Leschi, Louis. \u00ab L\u2019album municipal de Timgad \u00bb. Revue des \u00c9tudes Anciennes 50, no 1\u20132 (1948) : 71\u2013100.
\u2022 Courtois, Christian. Timgad. Antique Thamugadi. Alger : Service des Antiquit\u00e9s, 1951.
\u2022 Lassus, Jean. \u00ab Une op\u00e9ration immobili\u00e8re \u00e0 Timgad \u00bb. In M\u00e9langes d\u2019arch\u00e9ologie et d\u2019histoire offerts \u00e0 Andr\u00e9 Piganiol, vol. 3, Paris : SEVPEN, 1966, pp. 1120\u20131129.
\u2022 L\u00e9zine, Alexandre. \u00ab Note sur l\u2019arc dit de Trajan \u00bb. Bulletin d\u2019arch\u00e9ologie alg\u00e9rienne 2 (1966\u20131967) : 123\u2013127.
\u2022 Tourrenc, Serge. \u00ab La d\u00e9dicace du temple du G\u00e9nie de la colonie \u00e0 Timgad \u00bb. Antiquit\u00e9s africaines 2 (1968) : 197\u2013220. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3406\/antaf.1968.893<\/a>
\u2022 Germain, Suzanne. Les mosa\u00efques de Timgad. Paris : CNRS, 1969.
\u2022 Lassus, Jean. Visite \u00e0 Timgad. Alger : Minist\u00e8re de l\u2019\u00c9ducation nationale, Direction des affaires culturelles, 1969.
\u2022 Godet, Raymond. \u00ab Le ravitaillement de Timgad en eau potable \u00bb. In Fouilles \u00e0 Timgad 1938\u20131956, Paris : CNRS, 1981.
\u2022 Lassus, Jean. Fouilles \u00e0 Timgad 1938\u20131956 : La forteresse byzantine de Thamugadi, vol. 1. Paris : CNRS, coll. \u00ab \u00c9tudes d\u2019Antiquit\u00e9s africaines \u00bb, 1981.
\u2022 Le Bohec, Yann. \u00ab Timgad, la Numidie et l\u2019arm\u00e9e romaine \u00bb. Bulletin arch\u00e9ologique du CTHS, B (1984) : 105\u2013120.
\u2022 Dupuy, Xavier. \u00ab Trajan, Marciana et Timgad \u00bb. In Yann Le Bohec (dir.), L\u2019Afrique, la Gaule, la religion \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque romaine. M\u00e9langes \u00e0 la m\u00e9moire de Marcel Le Glay, Bruxelles, 1994 : 220\u2013225.
\u2022 Le Bohec, Yann. \u00ab Le plan de la Timgad primitive \u00bb. Kolaios, Publ. Ocas. III (1994 [1996]) : 81\u201394.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arch\u00e9om\u00e9trie et donn\u00e9es spatiales (SIG)
\u2022 Rezkallah, Younes. Les carri\u00e8res et les mat\u00e9riaux de construction lapidaires \u00e0 Timgad et \u00e0 son voisinage : \u00e9tude d\u2019arch\u00e9ologie et d\u2019arch\u00e9om\u00e9trie. Th\u00e8se de doctorat, Universit\u00e9 Paris 1 Panth\u00e9on-Sorbonne, 2017.
\u2022 Rezkallah, Yasmine, Rachid Marmi, Salah Drici, Laetitia Costa et Claire Lochin. \u00ab Premi\u00e8re mission arch\u00e9ologique \u00e0 Timgad : le cavalier des carri\u00e8res \u00bb. Ikosim 10, no 1 (2021) : 79\u201389. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3917\/ikos.010.0079<\/a>

Historiography and urban archaeology<\/strong>
\u2022 Saumagne, Charles. \u00ab Le plan de Timgad \u00bb. Les Cahiers de Tunisie 10, nos 37\u201340, s.d. : 489\u2013515.
\u2022 Morizot, Pierre. \u00ab Timgad et son territoire \u00bb. In Yann Le Bohec (dir.), L\u2019Afrique, la Gaule, la religion \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9poque romaine. M\u00e9langes \u00e0 la m\u00e9moire de Marcel Le Glay, Bruxelles, 1994 : 226\u2013243.
\u2022 Briand-Ponsart, Claude. \u00ab \u00c9lites et constructions urbaines \u00e0 Thamugadi au IIe si\u00e8cle ap. J.-C. \u00bb. In Michel Molin (dir.), Autoc\u00e9l\u00e9bration des \u00e9lites locales dans le monde romain, Clermont-Ferrand : Presses Universitaires Blaise-Pascal, 2004 : 181\u2013197.
\u2022 Corbier, Paul. \u00ab Timgad, son d\u00e9veloppement urbain, ses notables \u00bb. In Agn\u00e8s Groslambert (dir.), Urbanisme et urbanisation en Numidie militaire, actes du colloque des 7\u20138 mars 2008, Paris, 2009 : 181\u2013198.
\u2022 Amraoui, Touatia. \u00ab L\u2019artisanat \u00e0 Timgad : la r\u00e9partition des installations dans la ville, un premier bilan \u00bb. In L\u2019Africa romana. I luoghi e le forme dei mestieri e della produzione nelle province africane, actes du XVIIIe congr\u00e8s, Olbia, 11\u201314 d\u00e9cembre 2008, Rome, 2010 : 405\u2013412.
\u2022 Amraoui, Touatia. \u00ab Le quartier industriel de Timgad : un \u00e9tat de la question \u00bb. In Fontaine S., Satre St. et Tekki A. (\u00e9d.), La ville au quotidien. Regards crois\u00e9s sur l\u2019habitat et l\u2019artisanat antiques, Aix-en-Provence : Presses universitaires de Provence, 2011 : 223\u2013232.
\u2022 Le Bohec, Yann. \u00ab La fondation de Timgad (100 apr\u00e8s J.-C.) \u00bb. In Piso I. et Varga R. (\u00e9d.), Trajan und seine St\u00e4dte. Colloquium Cluj-Napoca, 29. September \u2013 2. Oktober 2013, Cluj-Napoca, 2014 : 91\u201399.
\u2022 Yelles, Anissa. \u00ab Stratigraphie d\u2019une fouille en Afrique du Nord. Analyse des corpus photographiques produits par Ballu \u00e0 Timgad entre 1892 et 1927 \u00bb. Cahiers du CAP 9, \u00c9ditions de la Sorbonne, 2021 : 257\u2013287.
\u2022 Yelles, Anissa. \u00ab Cartographie visuelle et relecture mat\u00e9rielle des villes d\u2019Afrique proconsulaire. La photographie ancienne comme source nouvelle \u00bb. In Ruines m\u00e9diterran\u00e9ennes et photographies anciennes, Quimper, 10\u201311 d\u00e9cembre 2015 [publi\u00e9 2023].
\u2022 Yelles, Anissa. \u00ab Archives crois\u00e9es d\u2019Albert Ballu \u00e0 Timgad \u00bb. Fronti\u00e8re\u00b7s 10 (2024). http:\/\/journals.openedition.org\/frontieres\/3588<\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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