Verecunda
Located just NE of Lambaesis, its population consisted primarily of veterans of the Third Augustan Legion. It became a municipium at the end of the 3d c. No bishop from there is known.
The most notable of the monuments found is an arch with one opening (3.62 m wide) to the NE on the road from Lambaesis to Timgad. The arch proper survives, traced by an archivolt and flanked by pilasters with columns in front. Above, part of the attic remains, carrying an inscription dedicated to Marcus Aurelius in A.D. 172. To the SW, on a road coming from Lambaesis, stands another arch dedicated to Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus in 162. It is simpler, its single opening flanked by two large pilasters.
The location of the forum is known by the many bases of statues erected in honor of divinities, emperors, and important personages, as well as by six heads of emperors (Lucius Verus, Annius Verus [?], Commodus or Marcus Aurelius, Lucilla, Septimius Severus, and Julia Domna), all now in the Louvre. Tombs have been found SW of the town.
Other sculpture includes: a toga-clad statue, votive stelae, a bas-relief depicting a spirit performing a sacrifice between Neptune and Bacchus, capitals, and a stone marked with the monogram of Constantine. Most of these items are kept at the Lambaesis Museum.
BIBLIOGRAPHYS. Gsell, Les monuments antiques de l'Algérie (1901) I 165-67, 159; Atlas archéologique de l'Algérie (1911) 27, no. 240.
M. LEGLAY