Nora fenicia. Nuovi dati e nuove letture

Abstract: The contribution addresses the issue of the structural and spatial articulation of the Phoenician settlement of Nora, which has clearly emerged in recent years thanks to targeted surveys conducted by the University of Padua at the site of the Capo di Pula. The investigations carried out in the central area of the Roman city, between the Forum and the Roman Temple, have brought to light important clues of a nuragic settlement close to which the Phoenician emporium was established. Other research in recent years has also identified archaic presences in the extreme southern spaces of the promontory, within the Punic and Roman sanctuary of Aesculapius, and in the northern area of the isthmus. Here, between 2014 and 2019, a new Phoenician necropolis was progressively discovered, used at least from the first half of the 7th century. B.C. These recent researches confirm that the inhabited area must have been composed of light and renewed architectures over time (huts and tents in perishable material), but have highlighted a highly evolved spatial conception of the archaic settlement, which already consisted of distinct sectors of inhabited, religious and funerary spaces such as the later Punic and Roman urban realities.