Mortuary Landscapes of North Africa

266 Pages·2007·3.972 MB·English

by  David L. Stone, Lea Stirling

Mortuary Landscapes of North Africa
PHOENIX
Journal of the Classical Association of Canada
Revue de la Socie´te´ canadienne des e´tudes classiques
Supplementary Volume XLIII
Tome supple´mentaire XLIII
EDITED BY DAVID L. STONE
AND LEA M. STIRLING
Mortuary Landscapes
of North Africa
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1.Sepulchral monuments –Africa,North. 2.Tombs–Africa,North.
3.Burial –Africa,North.
I.Stone,DavidLeigh,1954– II.Stirling,Lea Margaret
III.Series: Phoenix.Supplementary volume(Toronto,Ont.) ;43
DT191.M672007 306.90961 C2006-901797-2
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CONTENTS
List of Figures vii
Preface xi
1 Funerary Monuments and Mortuary Practices
in the Landscapes of North Africa 3
David L. Stone and Lea M. Stirling
2 Interculturality and the Punic Funerary World 32
Habib Ben Younes
3 Monuments on the Margins: Interpreting the
First Millennium B.C.E. Rock-cut Tombs
(Haouanet) of North Africa 43
David L. Stone
4 The ‘Mausoleum Culture’ of Africa Proconsularis 75
Jennifer P. Moore
5 The Koine of the Cupula in Roman North Africa and the
Transition from Cremation to Inhumation 110
Lea M. Stirling
6 The African Way of Death: Burial Rituals
beyond the Roman Empire 138
David J. Mattingly
vi Contents
7 Changing Urban Landscapes: Burials in North African Cities
from the Late Antique to Byzantine Periods 164
Anna Leone
8 Peopling the Mortuary Landscape of North Africa: An Overview
of the Human Osteological Evidence 204
Michael MacKinnon
Index 241
FIGURES
1.1 North Africa in a Mediterranean context, showing major sites
discussed in the volume 4
1.2 Map of North Africa showing major sites discussed in the volume 9
1.3 Tomb at Medracen, Algeria 12
1.4 Tophet at Carthage 21
2.1 Distribution of pre-Roman cemeteries 33
2.2 Distribution of haouanet and Punic cemeteries with painted
decoration 35
2.3 Hanout and Punic shaft tomb with domed ceilings 39
2.4 Hanout (above) and Punic shaft tomb (below) with pitched ceilings
and painted decoration 40
3.1 Distribution of haouanet in North Africa 44
3.2 Overview of haouanet in the cemetery of Latrech 53
3.3 Hunting scene from hanout 6 at Latrech 60
3.4 Fish, niche, and column from hanout 11 at Jbel el Mangoub 62
3.5 Mausoleum from hanout 21 at Jbel el Mangoub 64
4.1 ’Neopunic’ tower-mausoleum at Makthar 76
4.2 ‘Tetrastyle’ temple-mausoleum at Ha¨ıdra 77
viii List of Figures
4.3 Distribution of pre-Roman mausolea in Tunisia 79
4.4 Recorded structural and epigraphic evidence for Roman-period
mausolea in Tunisia 80
4.5 Relief above the doorway of the Mausoleum of the Iulii at Makthar,
showing preparations for sacrifice 86
4.6 Distribution of Roman mausolea in Tunisia 88
4.7 Temple-mausoleum at Henchir Zaatli 92
5.1 Monolithic cupula at Ammaedara 111
5.2 Map of North Africa showing principal sites discussed in the
chapter 112
5.3 MasonrytombsintheSite200cemeteryatLeptiminus,Tunisia 114
5.4 Tomb of Theodora, Bir el Jebbana cemetery, Carthage 121
5.5 Hybrid tomb marker combining elements of a cupula and a cippus
from the cemetery at Bir es Zeitoun, Carthage, Tunisia 128
5.6 Cupula tombs within enclosures at the Hadrumetum cemetery 131
5.7 Cupulae and mausolea at Haouch Taaˆcha, Tunisia 133
6.1 Map showing principal oases in the Wadi al-Ajal and location of
Garamantian heartlands in Fazzan (Southern Libya) 139
6.2 General view of dense Garamantian cemetery, Wadi al-Ajal 142
6.3 The mausoleum at Qasr Watwat (UAT 1), reconstruction
drawing 143
6.4 Aerial view of the pyramid cemetery at al-Hatiyah (ELH 2) 143
6.5 Burial typology 145
6.6 Type 5b stepped tombs (TAG 1) 146
6.7 Typology of stelae 148
6.8 Dense Garamantian cemetery with numerous stelae (and offering
tables) placed against the east face of tombs (ZOU 2) 149
6.9 ModelsofcemeterymorphologyintheGaramantianheartlands 151
6.10 General view of cairn cemetery TAG 6, showing a dispersed pattern
(cf. figs 6.1 and 6.3) 152
ix List of Figures
6.11 Burial orientation 155
6.12 Rich assemblage of imported goods included in a second–third
century burial at Saniat bin Huwaydi (GER 11) 158
7.1 Thysdrus: plan of the Sollertiana Domus and the Maison du Paon
with graves 171
7.2 Plan of Bulla Regia 174
7.3 Plan of Carthage showing graves, cemeteries, and Christian
buildings 178
8.1 Map of North Africa showing major sites discussed in the
chapter 206