Apollo of Cherchell
Michel Reference
DZ 304
Stanley Reference
DZ 313
Yvert Reference
DZ 293
Scott Reference
DZ 245
Themes
Angels and Mythology
Description
Cherchell is built on the site of lol-Caesarea, the ancient capital of Mauritania, and occupies the central part of the ancient Greco-Roman city which measured no less than four hundred hectares in area.
The city is located on the shore. According to the spirit and tradition of the Phoenicians and Greeks.
Attracted by the beauty of these coasts and the fertility of the soil, the rugged sailors of Phoenicia sailed their triremes into these waters. In the 4th century BC, they founded a modest colony which they named Iol after a Phoenician god. They established their port behind an islet very close to the land.
Following the destruction of Carthage in 146 BC, the Republic brought Africa Vetus, a province which covered the north-east of present-day Tunisia, under the domination of Rome. The rest of the country had been left to the kings of Berberia over whom the Roman Republic exercised a sort of protectorate. Some of these kings reigned in peace. Others, like Jugurtha or Juba I, threw off the yoke.
Juba I, king of Numidia, had to stab himself to avoid falling into the hands of Caesar, the day after the battle of Thapsus which marked the definitive defeat of Pompey's supporters.
This victory caused Numidia to fall into the hands of Caesar as far as Wadi El-Kébir. Rome thus created a new province adjacent to Africa Vetus. This province, Africa Nova, included Bône, Djemila, Lambèse and Constantine.
The only region which was not yet directly subject to Rome, the mountainous region of Djurdjura, Ouarsenis, Rif, had been the prerogative of a Berber king, Bocchus, father-in-law of Jugurtha, to whom Julius Caesar had granted the region of Setif.
The city is located on the shore. According to the spirit and tradition of the Phoenicians and Greeks.
Attracted by the beauty of these coasts and the fertility of the soil, the rugged sailors of Phoenicia sailed their triremes into these waters. In the 4th century BC, they founded a modest colony which they named Iol after a Phoenician god. They established their port behind an islet very close to the land.
Following the destruction of Carthage in 146 BC, the Republic brought Africa Vetus, a province which covered the north-east of present-day Tunisia, under the domination of Rome. The rest of the country had been left to the kings of Berberia over whom the Roman Republic exercised a sort of protectorate. Some of these kings reigned in peace. Others, like Jugurtha or Juba I, threw off the yoke.
Juba I, king of Numidia, had to stab himself to avoid falling into the hands of Caesar, the day after the battle of Thapsus which marked the definitive defeat of Pompey's supporters.
This victory caused Numidia to fall into the hands of Caesar as far as Wadi El-Kébir. Rome thus created a new province adjacent to Africa Vetus. This province, Africa Nova, included Bône, Djemila, Lambèse and Constantine.
The only region which was not yet directly subject to Rome, the mountainous region of Djurdjura, Ouarsenis, Rif, had been the prerogative of a Berber king, Bocchus, father-in-law of Jugurtha, to whom Julius Caesar had granted the region of Setif.
Colors
bleu
Designer
Jules Piel
Perforation
14 x 13
Printing
Taille-douce
Face value
30,00 DA
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