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a<br />

b<br />

34°N<br />

c<br />

the vandal conquest and vandal rule (429,534) 557<br />

A 6°E B<br />

8°E<br />

C 10°E<br />

D<br />

Cuicul/Djemila<br />

36°N<br />

Sitifis NUMIDIA<br />

Ain Ksar<br />

SCALE<br />

0<br />

Timgad<br />

(Thamugadi)<br />

50 100<br />

0 50<br />

<strong>Hi</strong>ppo<br />

Regius<br />

R. Muthul<br />

150 200 km<br />

100 miles<br />

Theveste<br />

Thelepte<br />

Belalis<br />

Maior<br />

R. Bagradas<br />

PROCONSULARIS Segermes<br />

Thuburbo<br />

Maius<br />

Ksar<br />

Lemsa<br />

Kairouan<br />

Carthage<br />

BYZACENA<br />

Sbeitla<br />

(Sufetula)<br />

Kasserine<br />

Ruspe<br />

(Cillium)<br />

Iunci S<strong>of</strong>iana<br />

A 6°E B 8°E C<br />

10°E<br />

D<br />

Map 12 The central provinces <strong>of</strong> Vandal and Byzantine Africa<br />

– for instance, lamps. 30 Far from being cut <strong>of</strong>f from the rest <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Mediterranean, African exports continued throughout the period, and<br />

indeed up to the seventh century; interpretation <strong>of</strong> the evidence remains<br />

controversial, but while there is evidence <strong>of</strong> decline from the mid fifth<br />

century, combined with a significant increase in imports <strong>of</strong> eastern<br />

amphorae to the west, the argument is one <strong>of</strong> scale. Geiseric’s aggressive<br />

policy against Italy cannot have helped the cause <strong>of</strong> African exports; yet<br />

kiln evidence shows that at Lepti Minus, for example, production was<br />

continuous. Indeed, the ending <strong>of</strong> the annona at Rome, which had acted<br />

as a stimulus to African production but also deprived the province itself<br />

<strong>of</strong> much <strong>of</strong> the grain which it produced, may have increased local<br />

resources during the Vandal period. It is not clear to what extent the level<br />

<strong>of</strong> long-distance exchange was affected by the substitution for Roman<br />

currency exports to North Africa <strong>of</strong> a local Vandal coinage and the continued<br />

use <strong>of</strong> fourth-century bronze. 31<br />

30 See ibid. 200–5, with Panella (1989), (1993); in general, Giardina (ed.), Società romana iii; Fulford, in<br />

Fulford and Peacock (eds.) (1984). Discussion in Wickham (1988), especially at 190–3; Mattingly (1988).<br />

31 References in Mattingly and <strong>Hi</strong>tchner (1995) nn. 386–7.<br />

<strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Hi</strong>stories Online © <strong>Cambridge</strong> University Press, 2008<br />

Kelibia<br />

Hadrumetum<br />

Lepti Minus<br />

a<br />

36°N<br />

Ras Kapoudia<br />

b<br />

34°N<br />

c

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