La tomba T36 della necropoli occidentale di Nora

Until a few years ago, the Phoenician funerary evidence in Nora was limited to just a single burial discovered in 1901 by G. Patroni. This lack left scholars with many open issues concerning the very first stages of settlement process. In addition to the remarkable acquisitions given by archaeological investigations carried out from the second half of the Twentieth Century, fresh new data came from a Phoenician funerary area discovered in recent years by University of Padua. This paper focuses on T36 tomb of the western necropolis of Nora, a secondary cremation placed in an urn inside a stone cist, which adds some new information concerning the material culture and the funerary ritual adopted during the Phoenician age.