“…Numidia had been part of the province of Africa Proconsularis during the 1 st and 2 nd centuries, but its inhabitants, like those of the Mauretanian provinces, leaned more toward a Libyan framework for their region's ancestral past than the Phoenician/Punic focus farther east in Africa Proconsularis and Tripolitania. 84 In theory, references to "Maurian" gods distinguished them from both Italian and Punic gods and identified them as the ancestral divinities of African Libyans. 85 Significantly, the earliest attested worship of the Dii Mauri happened well after the province of Mauritania Caesarensis had taken shape.…”