Season Team

• AIAC_3362 - Nora, ex Area militare - 2019
  This summary presents the results of the excavation campaigns carried out in 2018 and 2019 in the Phoenician and Punic necropolis located in the northern part of the so-called “ex Base della Marina Militare” of Nora. In direct continuity with the previous surveys, both secondary cremation and inhumation burials dug into the sandstone bedrock has been brought to light and excavated (Trench 1). The grave goods recovered and the different burial rituals adopted strongly suggest that the necropolis was continuously used from the Archaic Period to the late Punic Age. From this moment on, the function of this area changed deeply. A clear indication of this transformation is represented by the evidence of quarrying activities for the supply of stone building material, which in some cases carved the Punic hypogea, and the construction of a cistern (Trench 3).