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Marco Rendeli

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  • AIAC_93 - Nora, Tempio romano - 2003
    The city was founded by the Phoenicians on the promontory of Capo di Pula in the course of the eighth century BC. The first establishment is located in the area of the forum of the Roman city and a shrine is found on a small rise to the south-east. The Punic city extends for a large part of the promontory, occupying the Isthmus with a rich necropolis of underground tombs. Of the urban site dating to this period only a few traces remain, covered by the successive Roman city. This is characterized initially in the Republican period with grand houses that were successively obliterated from the period of Augustus onwards, when the city began to assume the arrangement visible today. In this phase the center of the city was reorganized with the building of the theater and the forum. In the Imperial period, between the end of the second and the middle of the third centuries AD, the new urbanism was deliniated by the creation of a road system and the building of important public and private buildings. In the Vandal period (fifth century AD), new building activity is attested that turned to the reuse of existing structures and to the reuse of building materials from ruined buildings. The Late-Roman and Byzantine periods see the slow and progressive disintegration of the urban texture, divided into separate residential and production centers, in part reutilizing pre-existing buildings, in part erecting new, modest structures. Many parts of the city were abandoned. The final abandonment of the site of Nora occurred between the seventh and eighth century AD, probably caused by the raids of Saracen pirates that forced the remaining inhabitants to flee further inland. (Carlo Tronchetti)

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