Cartagine: la città e le necropoli. Rapporto preliminare sulla prima campagna di scavi (2021) dell’Institut National du Patrimoine e dell’Università di Roma «La Sapienza»

Abstract

Within the framework of the scientific cooperation agreement between the Institut National du
Patrimoine and the University of Rome «La Sapienza», from 17 October to 10 November 2021 a first
archaeological season of excavation took place in a sector of the Phoenician and Punic necropolis of
Dermech in Carthage, within the park of the Antonin’s thermal baths beside the Borj-Jedid hill,.
Beneath the Roman and Byzantine remains, nine tombs – pit and single chamber with vertical shaft –
dug into the rock, have been unearthed in a sector datable to the 7
th and 5th centuries BC.