Musti

MUSTI(Μουστή, Ptol. 4.3.33), a town of Numidia, which the Antonine Itinerary places at 34 M. P. (32 M. P. Peut. Tab. ) from Sicca Veneria, 92 M. P. from Sufetula, 86 M. P. from Carthage, 119 M. P. (by Tipasa) to Cirta; all which distances (considering that the roads are indirect) agree with the position assigned to it by Shaw ( Trav. p. 179) and Barth ( Wanderungen, p. 221) at ‘Abd-er-Rabbi, so called from the tomb of a Marabout.According to Vibius Sequester ( de Flum. p. 7), it was near the river Bagradas; but Shaw (l. c.), who first discovered the site, by the remains of a triumphal arch, and a stone with an inscription bearing the ethnic name Musticensium,speaks of it as being at some distance from the present course of the Mejerdah.