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Series Number
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264
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Title
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Cagliari - indagini archeologiche presso il bastione di Santa Caterina
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Date of Publication
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2012
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Abstract
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The excavation brought to light a pluri-stratified site. In the first phase, apparently of the Phoenician-Punic period, the area was occupied by an ashlar wall plastered with opus signinum, belonging to a building possibly connected with the underground room beneath it. This had a bottle-shaped section, and a plan which ended in an apse to the east. There were niches in the wall and a pavement in opus signinum.
In a second phase, the underground room was abandoned, and at its northeast end a cut, filled with earth, was found. In spite of he absense of finds, its form is that of a tomb, an hypothesis supported by the find of two fragments of a sarcophagus lid, on one of which was found a funerary inscription datable between the end of the second and the beginnning of the third century AD.
A period of abandonment followed the use of the area for burials the underground room filled with a series of deposits, later cut for a use difficult to determine. In its last phase the room was fulled with a single deposit dating to the end of the nineteenth century, when the area was affected by the construction of the bastion of Saint Remy.
