{"id":416,"date":"2008-10-30T16:10:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-30T16:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/?page_id=416"},"modified":"2012-11-29T18:04:01","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:04:01","slug":"dougga-tunisia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/iccs-sicily-field-trips\/dougga-tunisia\/","title":{"rendered":"Dougga, Tunisia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tA remarkably intact Roman &quot;colony,&quot; that was once a native Numidian town, later was granted the status of municipium and still later the status of colonia. The site is spectacular &#8212; streets, temples, houses, baths&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/StudDougga.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"StudDougga.jpg\"  height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/StudDougga-thumb-240x180.jpg\"  width=\"240\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Douggadistance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Douggadistance.jpg\"  height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Douggadistance-thumb-180x240.jpg\"  width=\"180\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe cisterns and underground aqueducts are impressive<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Douggasewer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Douggasewer.jpg\"  height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Douggasewer-thumb-180x240.jpg\"  width=\"180\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAnd there is a wonderful Hellenistic tomb of a Numidian cavalry commander who died at Zama, fighting for Scipio &#8212; it combines Hellenistic, Egyptian and Assyrian motifs:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Ateban.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ateban.jpg\"  height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/Ateban-thumb-180x240.jpg\"  width=\"180\" \/><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe best mosaics are, however, in the Bardo:<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/PalermoDouggaMos.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"PalermoDouggaMos.jpg\"  height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/files\/PalermoDouggaMos-thumb-240x180.jpg\"  width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A remarkably intact Roman &quot;colony,&quot; that was once a native Numidian town, later was granted the status of municipium and still later the status of colonia. The site is spectacular &#8212; streets, temples, houses, baths&#8230; The cisterns and underground aqueducts&nbsp;&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/iccs-sicily-field-trips\/dougga-tunisia\/\">finish&nbsp;reading&nbsp;Dougga, Tunisia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"parent":744,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-416","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=416"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/416\/revisions\/854"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/nigelnicholson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}