M. DE VOS RAAIJMAKERS and R. ATTOUI, RUS AFRICUM: TOME I. LE PAYSAGE RURAL ANTIQUE AUTOUR DE DOUGGA ET TÉBOURSOUK: CARTOGRAPHIE, RELEVÉS ET CHRONOLOGIE DES ÉTABLISSEMENTS (Bibliotheca archaeologica 30). Bari: Edipuglia, 2013. Pp. 413, illus., maps, plans + CD-ROM. ISBN 9788872287033. €70.00. M. DE VOS RAAIJMAKERS, R. ATTOUI and A. BATTISTI in collaboration with M. BOEIJEN, RUS AFRICUM: TOME II. LE PAYSAGE RURAL ANTIQUE AUTOUR DE DOUGGA: L’AQUEDUC AÏN HAMMAM-THUGGA, CARTOGRAPHIE ET RELEVÉS (Bibliotheca archaeologica 34). Bari: Edipuglia, 2013. Pp. 300, illus., maps, plans. ISBN 9788872287286. €70.00. M. DE VOS RAAIJMAKERS and R. ATTOUI in collaboration with A. BATTISTI, RUS AFRICUM: TOME III. LA VIA A KARTHAGINE THEVESTEM, SES MILLIARES ET LE RÉSEAU ROUTIER RURAL DE LA REGION DE DOUGGA ET TÉBOURSOUK (Bibliotheca archaeologica 37). Bari: Edipuglia. 2015. Pp. 153, illus., maps, plans. ISBN 9788872287651. €50.00. The three volumes under review represent the rst full-scale publication of the results of the impressive Rus Africum landscape survey conducted at various intervals between 1994 and 2012 in the vicinity of the ancient towns of Thugga (modern Dougga) and Thubursicum Bure (Téboursouk) in the province of Africa Proconsularis (modern Tunisia). Vol. I is an inventory of the 444 sites and some 151 unedited inscriptions recorded by the survey between 1994 and 2012. Vol. II is a full-scale treatment, including again maps, plans, elevations and photographs as well as geological, architectural and hydraulic analyses, of the Ain Hammam–Thugga aqueduct. The third volume brings together the results on the Roman period road network and milestones in the region of Thugga, including the great Carthage–Theveste trunk road. At least two more volumes in the series are anticipated, the fourth presumably dealing with pottery, coins and other small nds, and the fth on the 160 sites in the vicinity of the smaller towns of Thabbora and Musti near Thugga. All of the volumes contain full, high quality maps, plans and photographs (both black-and-white and colour). There is also a CD-ROM for the rst two volumes. The somewhat unusual structure, organization and sequencing of the four publications is largely the result of factors beyond the authors’ control: most pertinently, the inability to secure permits to continue the survey between 2000 and 2008, denial of access to the pottery from the Ain Wassel excavations between 2008 and 2011 and, more recently, a shortfall in publication funding. Turning to the impressive rst volume, some minor concerns rst. It would have been convenient if site plans had been included within the site gazetteer and not at the back of the volume. Site plans are also published at different scales with a view to tting them on the page — which makes comparisons of buildings and other features from site to site difcult. The inclusion of some key diagnostic ceramic forms for each site would have been desirable given the broad chronological periodizations adopted. A small number of sites go unreported (apart from those promised for inclusion in Vol. V), including the important settlements of Agbia and Aunobari, and those that are undated by ceramics (295 of the 444 sites are datable on the basis of ceramic information) are missing from the table of sites precisely for this reason. And this despite the fact that some have inscriptions and architectural material which clearly belong to one or more of the nine periods established by the authors. A typology of sites is reserved for the doctoral thesis of Alessandro Battisti (see below). Turning to the results, the rural estates of the élite families of Thugga are in close proximity to the city itself. The combination of settlement and epigraphic evidence mentioning family names suggests to this reviewer that Roman citizens with Italic names associated perhaps with the pagus of Thugga held lands chiey to the immediate north and east of the city, and into the valley extending to the east as far as milestone M79 of the Carthage–Theveste road. The civitas community, including some of the most prominent municipal families (the Magnii, Gabinii and Remmii among others), occupied land to the west and south-west of the town, an area which also has a notable scatter of Libyo-Punic period tombs. The imperial and large former private estates, located on the lands to the north-east, north and north-west of Thugga and to the south and west of Numluli, are dominated by small and medium-sized villa-farms and factories. Many of these sites, which included generally from one to three presses, are similar to those found in the Kasserine region. Missing, however, from Thugga REVIEWS 307 https:/www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0075435816000472 Downloaded from https:/www.cambridge.org/core. Tufts Univ, on 13 Mar 2017 at 12:08:15, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at