Le dossier du groupe épiscopal de Bulla Regia

Duval, Noël

doi:10.3406/bsnaf.1971.2209

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“…Significantly, Bulla Regia continued to be occupied in some manner until at least the twelfth century, as is attested by medieval ceramics and coin hoards (Thébert 1983). The continued practice of Christianity under Muslim rule, already suggested by the eighth-century bishop from Bulla Regia, is lent further support by the discovery of a late infant burial in Church 1 that contained a small hoard of Umayyad coins (Duval 1969, 220, 229).…”

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“…He later identified a second possible church (now reburied) and a handful of Christian graves in a bath complex in the NE of the site (Carton 1922, 175). In 1952–54, an ‘episcopal’ complex of two churches (Church 1 and Church 2) was excavated by P. Quoniam, but published 15 years later by N. Duval (1969) only in summary form, based on the excavation archive and his own observations. In 2010, a preventative excavation directed by M. Chaouali uncovered a hitherto-unknown church and Christian cemetery to the west of the large pagan cemetery on the west side of the town.…”

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Bulla Regia I: a new church and Christian cemetery

Chaouali

Fenwick

Booms³

2018

Libyan Stud

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This paper reports the preliminary results from two short seasons of fieldwork that the Tunisian–British Bulla Regia Archaeological Report was able to undertake in September 2016 and 2017. In 2016, the work focused on a geophysical survey of the western cemetery and revealed a complex landscape of funerary enclosures and mausolea outside the protected boundaries of the site, likely to be of Roman date. In 2017, photogrammetric techniques were used to record and plan a Late Antique church and cemetery that was discovered during a rescue excavation in 2010. The church consists of three naves and a series of funerary annexes, which contained burials covered by mosaic or stone epitaphs, including those marking the graves of two bishops and two priests. The church is surrounded by an extensive cemetery with a variety of different tomb types, such as mosaic caissons and simple stepped masonry tombs. The mosaics, inscriptions and finds (ceramics, glass, coins) support a fourth to sixth/seventh century date for the church and cemetery.

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Bulla Regia I: a new church and Christian cemetery

Chaouali

Fenwick

Booms³

2018

Libyan Stud

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Urban transformation in the Central Medjerda Valley (north-west Tunisia) in late antiquity and the middle ages: a regional approach

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Recent scholarship on North African cities has done much to dispel earlier assumptions about late antique collapse and demonstrate significant continuity into the Byzantine and medieval periods. Yet urban changes did not affect North Africa evenly. Far less is known about the differing regional trajectories that shaped urban transformation and the extent to which pre-Roman and Roman micro-regions continued to share meaningful characteristics in subsequent periods. This article provides a preliminary exploration of regional change from the fourth to the eleventh century focused on a zone in the Central Medjerda Valley (Tunisia) containing the well-known sites of Bulla Regia and Chimtou. We place these towns in their wider historical and geographical setting and interrogate urban change by looking at investment in public buildings and spaces, religious buildings and housing, and ceramic networks. The process of comparison identifies new commonalities (and differences) between the sites of this stretch of the Medjerda River and provides a framework for understanding the many transformations of North African cities over the long late antiquity.

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Études d'architecture chrétienne nord-africaine

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1972

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Le dossier du groupe épiscopal de Bulla Regia

Cited by 5 publications

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Bulla Regia I: a new church and Christian cemetery

Bulla Regia I: a new church and Christian cemetery

Urban transformation in the Central Medjerda Valley (north-west Tunisia) in late antiquity and the middle ages: a regional approach

Études d'architecture chrétienne nord-africaine

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