Rabat

 The country called Morocco today was in the Roman times a province of the empire called Mauretania. Roman remains are therefore no surprise there. Some can be seen in the capital Rabat, in the part of the town called Chellah. There are Roman ruins there, including some stelae with Roman inscriptions on them. Some inscriptions are in the elegant capitalis quadrata, some in what I called capitalis rectangularis and some even in rustica. Anyway they are clearly Roman inscriptions, written in Latin.

Some of those inscriptions are written in what we call "rustica", which was used as a bookhand at the time. It required less turning of the hand to write serifs, consequently it was easier to write books, but as a result horizontal serifs tended to be thicker that vertical lines. It gave a kind of rhythm to a page.