L’area della necropoli fenicia e punica di Nora: Saggi 1, 4 e 5. Indagini 2022-2023

The paper presents the results of the excavation campaigns carried out in 2022 and 2023 at the Phoenician and Punic necropolis of Nora. In continuity with previous campaigns, the excavation of Phoenician secondary incineration tombs and a later Punic inhumation burial continued in Trench 1. In Trench 4, extensive traces referable to the later exploitation of the area during the Republican and Imperial Roman periods emerged with even greater clarity, with the conversion of Punic hypogea into cisterns and the construction of buildings, perhaps related to production activities. Finally, in the new Trench 5, opened in 2023 to connect the two mentioned excavation areas, the investigations allowed to identify a preserved fragment of necropolis, where some archaic tombs and a large Punic hypogeum, that remained continuously in use until the Hellenistic age, have been investigated.