Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest"This book examines the complex transition of North Africa from the Late Roman period to the Arab conquest, focusing on three provinces: Zeugitana, Byzacena and Tripolitana. In particular, it considers the continuity and transformation of towns, as a result of economic, political and social changes. The period sees the wide diffusion of Christianity, the imposition of Vandal rule and Arianism, the presence of a new Empire and the Arab/Muslim takeover. It is also a period of archaeological and material transition: physically towns changed and classical structures, in particular, decayed and were reused. The evidence considered here encompasses a wide range of material, including publications from 1800 (Italian and French colonial excavations) to modern times. These data form the basis for a detailed review of archaeological evidence in this geographical area and for the analysis of the processes of evolution that characterised North African cities"-- |
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Contents
Section 1 | 48 |
Section 2 | 50 |
Section 3 | 56 |
Section 4 | 64 |
Section 5 | 72 |
Section 6 | 77 |
Section 7 | 83 |
Section 8 | 85 |
Section 12 | 157 |
Section 13 | 163 |
Section 14 | 176 |
Section 15 | 187 |
Section 16 | 188 |
Section 17 | 202 |
Section 18 | 211 |
Section 19 | 229 |
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4th century abandoned Abed and Duval amphitheatre amphorae apse apsed room Arab Arab period archaeological evidence Baldini Lippolis 2001 baptistery Bartoccini bath-suite Bejaoui Beschaouch Bulla Regia Bullo and Ghedini burials Byrsa Byrsa hill Byzacena Byzantine period Carthage cemetery centre characterised Chasse Christian basilica chronology church CIL VIII circular harbour city wall complex decoration Dermech domus Duval and Baratte end 4th Ennabli excavations fortified Foucher funerary area Gauckler graves Hadrumetum Hurst identified inscription inside insula Lantier Late Antiquity Leone Lepcis Magna Lepelley Leptiminus Lézine located Mactaris Maison Maius Mattingly 1995 Modéran monuments North Africa North African cities Numidia olive press organisation peristyle phase Picard placed Poinssot possible pottery kilns Pringle Proconsularis Procopius production provinces public buildings recorded regions Restoration reused Roman Sabratha Sbeitla second half sector structure Sufetula suggested temple theatre Thébert Thermes Thugga tombs towns transformed Tripolitana urban areas Uthina Vandal period Victor Vitensis Zeugitana
Bibliographic information
| Title | Changing Townscapes in North Africa from Late Antiquity to the Arab Conquest Volume 28 of Munera (Bari) Volume 28 of Munera : studi storici sulla tarda antichità |
| Author | Anna Leone |
| Publisher | Edipuglia srl, 2007 |
| ISBN | 8872284988, 9788872284988 |
| Length | 356 pages |
| Subjects | › › Architecture / History / General History / Africa / General |
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