ABSTRACT
Astonishingly little detail is preserved about the sixty-five years of the Mauretanian client kingdom. There is no known royal chronicler in the fashion of Nikolaos of Damaskos at the court of Herod the Great. Understanding relies on casual statements by those recording the periods of Augustus and Tiberius, epigraphical and numismatic material, inferences from Juba’s own writings, the physical evidence of the territories, and extrapolation from the political and cultural situation in northwest Africa prior to 25 BC and in the neighboring Roman provinces. Information is most available at times of difficulty, especially along the frontier, when Roman assistance was necessary.
