Antiquités Africaines (Nov 2023)

Archéologie funéraire à Thaenae (Thyna) : nouvelles données sur le « mausolée Fendri »

  • Solenn de Larminat,
  • Salem Mokni,
  • Nabil Belmabrouk,
  • Samira Arous Ouslati,
  • Paul Bailet,
  • Michel Bonifay,
  • Daniel Borschneck,
  • Carine Cenzon-Salvayre,
  • Loïc Damelet,
  • Danièle Foy,
  • Antony Hostein,
  • Véronique Matterne,
  • Rémi Rêve,
  • Patrick Rossetti,
  • Aurore Val,
  • Oumaima Zaibi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4000/antafr.6473
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 59
pp. 191 – 235

Abstract

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The ongoing renovation of the Sfax Archaeological Museum and the current research within the framework of the Thaenae field site provided an opportunity between 2020 and 2022 to re-examine the material discovered by M. Fendri in a survey he carried out in 1964 in the northern necropolis of the town. He discovered a mausoleum, several secondary cremation burials composed of stelae and urns, a cupula burial and funerary material (lamps, glass, coins). He preserved the bones in three urns and their investigation, fifty years later using the new methods of archaeothanatology, provides new data on the funerary practices carried out in this city, which was already well known for the exceptional conservation of its necropolises.

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