Musti
Μουστή
Eth. Musti (Μουστή, Ptol. 4.3.33), a town of Numidia, which the Antonine Itinerary places at 34 M. P. (32 M. P. Peut. Tab.) from Sicca Veneria, 92 M. P. from Sufetula, 86 M. P. from Carthage, 119 M. P. (by Tipasa) to Cirta; all which distances (considering that the roads are indirect) agree with the position assigned to it by Shaw (Trav. p. 179) and Barth (Wanderungen, p. 221) at ‘Abd-er-Rabbi, so called from the tomb of a Marabout.
According to Vibius Sequester (de Flum. p. 7), it was near the river Bagradas; but Shaw (l.c.), who first discovered the site, by the remains of a triumphal arch, and a stone with an inscription bearing the ethnic name Musticensium,
speaks of it as being at some distance from the present course of the Mejerdah.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.