this masterpiece, which, seeing the profusion of wealth would remain amazed at the immense resources for launching this monument in the breaths of ether . '
The mausoleum is built around Petronii 230 in memory of the family by Mr. Petronii Petronius Fortunatus, a veteran born in 155 , centurion in thirteen legions , the III Gallica , the III Augusta and Parthica II , who participated probably the Eastern campaign of Septimius Severus in 199 . The inscriptions on the tomb publicize the centurion and recounts his military career between 175 and 220 , when he received his honesta missio , a diploma attesting to the soldiers at the end of their service. The mausoleum is called memoria , it is mainly the Christian period that the term is used in this sense. Some propose to translate "memorial" for the word wrongly refers to a cenotaph void of any body. There remains today as two walls. Dimensions and the remnants of his architectural decoration can assume that offered an architectural composition comparable to the mausoleum of Flavii.
The current name of the city finds its origin in the existence of these two mausoleums, Kasserine meaning in Arabic "the two castles."
The V century , Kasserine is the favorite place of St. Augustine . This he built a monastery , where Patrice Solomon is killed in 544 . after the disastrous Battle of Cillium against the Moors . According to Procopius of Caesarea , Byzantine historian of the VI century , Solomon was born around Dara , succeeding Belisarius in the African government under the Byzantine Empire , before being assayed Patrice, and plays an important role in wars against the Vandals and Moors.
Sources and historians do not mention any fact or event relating to periods after the Islamic conquest , the city was hidden from the end of the Byzantine era.
In modern times, Kasserine carries a particular history of struggle and revolt. In 1864 , in a
