Volubilis Après Rome

Le site arch ologique le plus visit au Maroc, Volubilis est connu depuis longtemps pour ses mosa ques spectaculaires. Ce livre traite de ce qui est arriv la ville apr s le retrait de l'administration romaine la fin du troisi me si cle. Les fouilles publi es ici montrent comment la ville a continu survivre jusqu'au cinqui me si cle, avec des maisons d' lite commandant encore des mosa ques l gantes, et comment cette occupation a pris fin dans un s isme brutal. La ville rena t au sixi me si cle avec de nouveaux occupants, la tribu berb re des Awraba. Au VIIIe si cle, il devint le si ge de l'homme qui unit la plus grande partie du Maroc la t te de l'Awraba, Idris I, descendant du proph te Mahomet.

The most-visited archaeological site in Morocco, Volubilis has long been known for its spectacular mosaics. Instead, this book deals with what happened to the town after the Roman administration was withdrawn at the end of the third century. The excavations published here show how the town continued to survive into the fifth century, with lite houses still commissioning elegant and witty mosaics, and how this occupation came to an end in a brutal earthquake. The town revived in the sixth century with new occupants, the Berber Awraba tribe. In the eighth century, it became the headquarters of the man who united most of Morocco at the head of the Awraba, Idris I, a descendant of the prophet Mohammed.

Contributeurs/Contributors: Ali A t Kaci, Victoria Amoros-Ruiz, Mustafa Atki, Amira K. Bennison, Helen Dawson, Fatima-Zohra El-Harrif, Hafsa El Hassani, Abdallah Fili, Dorian Fuller, Guy Hunt, Anthony King, Tarik Moujoud, Gaetano Palumbo, Ruth Pelling, Susan Walker, Mark Wilson Jones.