. MERIDIAN STKElil" .^T TIMOAO. iBy the courUsy of the Clarendon Press^ Oxford.) Timgad. It was the usual civil settlement which was essential to a permanent Roman camp. It was not a garrison town, though built so as to be easily defended, but was the commercial centre and recruiting-ground for the neighbouring camp and the nursery of Roman civilisation in the surrounding region. By 123 the camp of the legion was thirteen miles west- ward of Timgad, at Lambjesis. Like all Roman military colonies, Timgad is built like a Roman camp. In its original form it is almost a true squar
. MERIDIAN STKElil" .^T TIMOAO. iBy the courUsy of the Clarendon Press^ Oxford.) Timgad. It was the usual civil settlement which was essential to a permanent Roman camp. It was not a garrison town, though built so as to be easily defended, but was the commercial centre and recruiting-ground for the neighbouring camp and the nursery of Roman civilisation in the surrounding region. By 123 the camp of the legion was thirteen miles west- ward of Timgad, at Lambjesis. Like all Roman military colonies, Timgad is built like a Roman camp. In its original form it is almost a true square occupying about thirty acres. Thi; gates in the centre of the northern, western and eastern sides still survive. If the normal plan had been fol- from Lambjesis to Theveste. The main stream of traffic passed through it, and many of the more impor- tant public buildings are to be found in it or grouped near it. A number of side streets parallel to the Decumanus or to the Kardo divide the area of the town into small square insula or house-blocks, containing as a rule two houses apiece. There were no slums in Timgad because there were no poor in a population consisting mainly of merchants and time-expired soldiers. The general effect is a pattern like a chess- board, disturbed here and there by the larger spaces taken by the Forum and by pubhc buildings such as the theatre, the market, and the public library. This
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