an island through time: jerba studies

MINISTÈRE DE LA CULTURE ET DE LA SAUVEGARDE DU PATRIMOINE
AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
AN ISLAND THROUGH TIME:
JERBA STUDIES
Volume 1
THE PUNIC AND ROMAN PERIODS
by
E. Fentress, A. Drine, and R. Holod
with contributions by
A. Aït Kaci, R. Bagnall, S. Ben Tahar, K. Brown, C. Capelli,
M. Fabis, N. Ferchiou, S. Fontana, M. Frachetti, T. Ghalia,
A. King, T. Morton, A. Rabinowitz, Z. Várhelyi, & A. I. Wilson
PORTSMOUTH, RHODE ISLAND
2009
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of Tables and Figures
7
Preface: The Jerba Project
E. Fentress, R. Holod & A. Drine
11
1: INTRODUCTORY
1. Introduction
E. Fentress & R. Holod
15
Questions and research objectives
Jerba and N African surveys: chronological issues
2. Methodology
E. Fentress, M. Frachetti & K. Brown
21
Field survey (E.F.)
Fieldwalking and recording (E.F.)
The cartography and database management (M.F.)
The magnetometry (K.B.)
The excavations (E.F.)
Note on the names for historical periods, and on our dating of sites (E.F.)
3. Sources
A. Drine & E. Fentress
37
Classical and epigraphic sources for the island of Jerba
La recherche archéologique dans l’île de Jerba (A.D.)
Les travaux récents (A.D.)
4. Geography
M. Frachetti
55
An island geography: connected and isolated
The physical landscape
Land use and agriculture
Urban development and tourism
Maritime resources
2: JERBA IN THE CLASSICAL AND PUNIC PERIODS
5. The Classical and Early Punic periods
E. Fentress
72
6. The towns and ports
E. Fentress
75
E. Fentress & S. Fontana
86
A. Aït Kaci, A. Drine & S. Ben Tahar
96
Meninx
B ū rgū
Haribus
Ghī zin
Other ports
7. The productive landscape
Farms and villas (E.F.)
Villa plans (E.F.)
Construction techniques (E.F.)
Distribution (E.F.)
Trade and production (S.F.)
The economy of pre-Roman Jerba (E.F.)
8. The sacred landscape
The tumulus of Sī dī al-Sā .tū rī (A.A.K.)
The sanctuary of Tā la (A.D.)
The Punic and Libyan cemeteries (S.B.T.)
9. Recherches sur le mausolée hellénistique d’Hinshī r Bū rgū
Le caveau
Hypothèses de restitution
Ornementation de la tour
Métrologie et tracé
Chronologie
Rites funéraires
N. Ferchiou
107
Localisation
La place du mausolée dans le paysage funéraire de l’Afrique pré-romaine
3: ROMAN JERBA
10. The towns and ports
E. Fentress, A. Drine, T. Morton & T. Ghalia
131
B ū rgū /Thoar (E.F.)
Meninx (E.F., A.D., T.M., T.G.)
Girba (A.D., E.F.)
The ports and landings (E.F.)
11. Water supply in the Roman period: aqueducts and cisterns
A. Wilson
177
The water supply of Meninx
The urban distribution network and reservoir cisterns
The baths and their storage cisterns
Domestic and industrial rainwater collection cisterns
Conclusions: the water supply
12. The rural landscape and economy
E. Fentress & S. Fontana
188
13. The forts
E. Fentress
201
14. Conclusions
E. Fentress
206
The Early Roman period
The Middle Roman period
The late-antique period
4: THE DATA
15. The excavations
A. Aït Kaci, A. Drine, E. Fentress, T. Morton
A. Rabinowitz, & A. Wilson
212
Excavations at Meninx
Meninx I: a house and a murex-dye workshop (A.R.)
Meninx II: a house (E.F.)
A preliminary report on Meninx III; the horrea (A.D.)
Meninx IV: sondage next to basilica stylobate
Meninx V: the basilica (A.A.K., T.M.)
Meninx VI: sondage across the line of aqueducts 1 and 2 (A.W.)
T ā la (A.A.K.)
16. La ceramica tra l’età punica e la tarda antichità S. Fontana, S. Ben Tahar & C. Capelli
241
Introduzione (S.F.)
Le ceramiche fine (S.B.T., S.F.)
Le anfore (S.F.)
La ceramica comune (S.F.)
Produzione ceramica e insediamenti (S.F.)
Analisi in microscopia ottica (C.C.)
17. Other material A. Drine, N. Ferchiou, R. S. Bagnall, Z. Várhelyi, M. Fabis & A. King
328
Stone objects: inscriptions, querns, cistern-head (A.D., N.F.)
Ostraka (R.B., Z.V.)
Faunal remains (M.F., A.K.)
Bibliography
348
Appendix: Site and population numbers by period
361
Catalogue of sites: see http://www.museum.upenn.edu/jerba