Name of Object:

Theatre of Djemila, ancient Cuicul

Location:

Algiers, Algeria

Holding Institution:

Musée National des Beaux-Arts

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Date of Object:

1840

Author:

Delamare Adolphe (-1861)

Inventory Number:

IG 5773

Material(s) / Technique(s):

Pencil

Dimensions:

28.4 x 42.5 cm

Description:

In August 1840 and again in 1848 Delamare visited the ruins of Cuicul, an ancient Roman colony founded by Nerva and Trajan at the end of the first century. He brought a number of sketches back from these visits, with the most important of these currently kept at the Cabinet du Livre in the old library at the Sorbonne. This drawing, kept at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, accurately reproduces of the ruins of the theatre, built in the second century beyond the city walls.

Citation of this web page:

Hayet Touaibia "Theatre of Djemila, ancient Cuicul" in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2025.
https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;dz;27;en

Prepared by: Hayet Touaibia
Translation by: Flaminia Baldwin

MWNF Working Number: DZ 074