Archaeological and prehistoric site in Tunisia
Numluli Henchir-Mâtria is anarchaeological andprehistoric site innorthern Tunisia .[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] 36°31′23.4″N 9°13′11.1″E / 36.523167°N 9.219750°E /36.523167; 9.219750 Béja andDougga and elevation of 407 metres (1,335 feet).[ 1] [ 4] Oued el Beida River.
During theRoman Empire andlate antiquity Henchir-Mâtria was acivitas in theRoman province ofAfrica Proconsolaris called Numluli.[ 5] [ 6] [ 7]
Several structures have been uncovered there.[ 8] [ 9]
Duringantiquity Henchir-matria was also theseat of an ancient ChristianBishopric ,[ 10] [ 11] Archdiocese of Carthage . History records two bishops of the town Aurelius aCatholic attendee at theCouncil of Carthage of 411, and the bishop Donatian who attended the antimonothetalism Council of 646. Today thediocese survives astitular see of theRoman Catholic Church . The Most recent Bishop wasWilliam Clifford Newman , ofBaltimore , who died May 20th, 2017.
^a b Henchir el-Matria at mapcarta.com.^ Titular Episcopal See of Numluli at GCatholic.org.^ Anna Leone, Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest (Edipuglia srl, 2007) p347. ^ Henchir el-Matria at geoview.info.^ "Numluli, Henchir Matria – Digital Atlas of the Roman Empire" .^ Anna Leone, Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest (Edipuglia srl, 2007) p347. ^ Carte des routes et des cités de l'est de l'Africa à la fin de l'Antiquité, 2010, p. 188. ^ A. Mastino – V. Porcheddu, L'Horologium offerto al pagus civium romanorum ed alla civitas di Numluli, in: M. G. Bertinelli Angeli – A. Donati (Hrsg.),Misurare il tempo, misurare lo spazio. Atti del colloquio Aiegl - Borghesi 2005 (Faenza 2006), 123–162 ^ EL MAATRIA (Numluli) THIBAR, TUNISIA .^ Pius Bonifacius Gams , Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, (Leipzig, 1931), p. 467.^ Stefano Antonio Morcelli,Africa christiana , Volume I, (Brescia, 1816), pp. 247–248. 
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