Memoria e continuità culturale nella Nora di età ellenistica: un caso di riuso di corredi fenici dalla tomba T27

The study of the grave goods from tomb T27 of the western necropolis of Nora stimulates considerations that add new elements of complexity to the already elaborate picture that is gradually emerging as investigations at the burial site progress, highlighting further critical issues and potentialities related to the reconstruction of the ancient funerary ritual. The present paper explores the different interpretations offered by the discovery of Phoenician grave goods in association with Hellenistic cinerary urns. The redeposition of archaic objects within a new tomb arrangement challenge us to question the reasons for such an action, which is certainly deliberate, intentional, and therefore significant. After the exposition of the stratigraphic context, the discussion of the typological and chronological classification of the artifacts, and the presentation of the data so far available for the Hellenistic phase of the Nora necropolis, the contribution will examine the possible motivations behind the redeposition. Some scenarios appear more convincing than others, therefore the authors will eventually suggest an interpretation that involves the precise will to declare the deceased somehow linked to that Phoenician facies in respect of which the Hellenistic community of Nora was still in ideal continuity.