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Les nécropoles romaines de Dougga Thugga était, à l’instar des autres villes de l’Antiquité, entourée de nécropoles qui marquaient en quelque sorte les limites de l’oppidum à proprement parler. On dénombre cinq zones funéraires séparées desquelles ont été extraites pas moins de 2 500 épitaphes dont plus de 500 sont encore inédites (fig. 1). Les recherches archéologiques conduites à Dougga depuis la fin du xixe siè...

Des témoignages sur l’occupation préromaine ont été glanés dans divers points de la cité de Dougga à l’occasion de quelques sondages effectués ces dernières décennies dans le cadre de la coopération tuniso-allemande : sous le forum, sous trois maisons et au sud de la Maison du Trifolium. La zone qui comporte le nombre le plus important d’indices de cette occupation est certainement la nécropole mégalithique. Cette aire funéraire a livré ...

L’équipe tuniso-française explore depuis 2017 la périphérie nord de Dougga, en particulier la nécropole mégalithique et romaine du Nord-Ouest et le sanctuaire de Baal Hammon – Saturne en contrebas, à l’extrémité nord-est. Les résultats sont abordés selon différentes approches. L’architecture d’un nouveau mausolée turriforme et d’une des bazinas de forme circulaire atteste un haut niveau culturel hellénistique de la société et des artisans numides. Le mobilier des chambres de la bazina apporte une multitude de données préliminaires sur les pratiques funéraires à inhumations collectives qui associent enfants et adultes. La céramique préromaine des bazinas de cette nécropole, datée entre la fin du ive s. et le ier s. av. J.-C., fait l’objet d’un essai de typologie et d’une analyse pétrographique. L’espace funéraire a continué d’être utilisé jusqu’au deuxième ou troisième tiers du iiie s. apr. J.-C. et l’examen d’un ensemble de stèles inscrites, de mensae et de crémations dans des marmites neuves est l’occasion, pour la première fois à Dougga, de confronter les données anthropologiques aux épitaphes. Enfin l’étude pluridisciplinaire de quelques stèles votives et cruches cinéraires découvertes in situ dans l’aire sacrée de Baal Hammon – Saturne est également une première dans ce site et elle remet en question les identifications anciennes et confirme les crémations de périnataux avec des caprinés et des offrandes végétales jusqu’en 80 apr. J.-C. Since 2017, the Tunisian-French team has been examining the northern periphery of Dougga (Thugga) and in particular the megalithic and Roman north-western funerary area on the cliff top and the sanctuary of Baal Hammon – Saturn, at a lower level to the north-east. Several discrete aspects are presented. The architecture of a newly identified turriform mausoleum and one of the circular drum tombs (bazinas) testify to a high Hellenistic cultural level of the society and the Numidian craftsmen. The material recovered from the bazina’s chambers provides a wealth of new data on the culture associated with these structures and on collective burial practices involving children and adults. A typology is presented of the pre-Roman ceramics of the entire necropolis, dated between the late 4th century BC and the 1st century BC, as well as results of petrographic analysis. The funerary area continued to be used until the second or third quarter of the 3rd century AD, and the examination of a set of inscribed stelae, mensae and cremations in pots permits, for the first time at Dougga, comparison of anthropological data with epitaphs. Finally, the multidisciplinary study of some votive stelae and cinerary vessels discovered in situ in the sacred area of Baal Hammon – Saturn is also a first for this site and it challenges ancient identifications and confirms perinatal human cremations, along with ovicaprine and food offerings until AD 80. يستكشف فريق البحث التونسي – الفرنسي منذ 2017 الأطراف الشمالية لموقع دُقّة وخصوصا المقبرة الجلمودية والرومانية الشمالية - الغربية وكذلك معبد بعل حمُّون - ساتُورن من الناحية الشمالية-الشرقية. إنّ هندسة ضَريح جديد ذي طوابق وكذلك إحدى البَزَائِن الدائرية الشكل، تشهد على عُمق تأثر المجتمع والحرفيين النُوميديين بالحضارة الهلّينستية. يُقدّم الأثاث الجنائزي المُستَخْرَج من غُرَف البَزِينة مجموعة من المعطيات الأوّلية حول الطقُوس الجنائزية المتعلقة بعمليات الدفن الجماعي التي يمتزج فيها الأطفال والكهول. كما تم تصنيف الخَزَف ما قبل الروماني المتأتي من بَزَائِن هذه المقبرة والمؤرخ بالفترة الممتدة بين نهاية القرن الرابع والقرن الأول قبل الميلاد وإخضاعه للتحليل البتْرُوغْرَافي. لقد تواصل استغلال هذا المجال الجنائزي إلى حدود الثلث الثاني أو الثالث من القرن الثالث ميلاديا. كما مثلت معاينة مجموعة من الشوَاهِد المكتوبة والموائد الجنائزية والحرق في مِرْمَدِيات جديدة، مناسبة لأوّل مرة في دُقّة لمقارنة المعطيات الأنترُوبُولوجِية بمحتوى النقائش الجنائزية. من ناحية أخرى، ولأوّل مرّة كذلك في دُقّة، مكّنت الدراسة متعددة التخصصات لعدد من النُصُب النَذْرية والمِرْمَدِيات المُكتَشَفة في مكانها الأصلي بالمجال المُقَدّس لبعل حمُّون– ساتُورن من مراجعة التحديدات القديمة ومن تأكيد وجود عملية حرق المُتَوفين قبل الولادة مع بقايا أغنام وقرابين نباتية وذلك إلى حدود سنة 80 ميلاديا.

L’etablissement numide L’etablissement numide TBGG qui a succede a une occupation protohistorique s’est installe sur les pentes du kef Dougga qui surplombe la vallee de l’oued Khalled. Ce lieu reunissait toutes les conditions propices a l’occupation humaine : deux sources, l’Ain Mizeb au nord-ouest et l’Ain Doura au sud-ouest, la terre indispensable aux cultures et a l’arboriculture et les affleurements rocheux de calcaire qui pouvaient etre exploites en carriere. Rares sont les vestiges de l...

A l’extremite orientale du kef Dougga et en contrebas, les steles votives figurees et inscrites en neopunique et en latin marquaient l’emplacement de vases cineraires contenant des restes osseux offerts a Baal Hammon, assimile plus tard a Saturne. Les vestiges de cette aire sacree a ciel ouvert ont ete localises, entre 1891 et 1893, par Louis Carton et le lieutenant Denis au nord-ouest du sanctuaire reconstruit en 195, ou sous-jacents a sa cour ...

Cet article est consacré à un autel de marbre blanc aux dimensions imposantes et à la riche décoration (CIL XII, 3200) provenant de Clarensac, situé sur le territoire antique de Nîmes. Cet autel ne signalait pas une sépulture, mais un cénotaphe dressé en l’honneur d’un personnage de haut rang, M. Attius Paternus, originaire de la cité de Riez. This article is devoted to a white marble altar of imposing dimensions and rich decoration (CIL XII, 3200) from Clarensac, located on the territory of Nimes during Roman times. This altar did not report a burial, but a cenotaph : it has been erected in honor of a person of high rank, M. Attius Paternus, borned in the city of Riez.

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Manuscripts with texts of Tarantine inscriptions date back to the 15th and 17th centuries and contain transcriptions by foreign and local scholars. The oldest manu- script containing Tarentine inscriptions is the Marucellian Code A 79 1, followed by the Vat. lat. 6039, 5237, 5241. In particular, the Vat. lat. 5241 preserves a trace of A. Paglia’s research on the impulse of Aldo Manuzio the Younger. However, also local scholars dealt with Latin inscriptions in their works: among these we note Giovanni Giovine and Ambrogio Merodio. Merodio’s transcriptions were inadvertently used by Mommsen, through the work of the Abbot Pacichelli. Most of the few inscriptions reproduced in the manuscript tradition (eight epitaphs and two honorary dedications) are now lost and were originally found in churches where they had been reused as spolia.

The goal of this paper is to offer a lecture of an unpublished Latin inscription carved on a bronze nail that is currently kept at The Hunt Museum, Limerick (Ireland). The allegedly incomprehensible text and its medium had been previously related to a Modern Age masonic and/or drinking context. However, we propose to read the inscription as a 4th-5th century A. D. protective text against envious people, which was written in Vulgar Latin and engraved on a magical nail from the Roman province of Africa., El propósito del presente trabajo es dar a conocer un epígrafe latino desconocido hasta la fecha. Se trata de un texto inciso sobre un clavo de bronce, hoy depositado en The Hunt Museum, Limerick (Irlanda). El epígrafe así como la propia pieza que le da soporte habían sido asignados a un contexto masónico o tabernario propios de época moderna. Sin embargo, consideramos que se trata de un texto mágico de carácter profiláctico procedente de la provincia romana de Africa, compuesto en latín vulgar y datable en los siglos IV-V d. C., y destinado a repeler a los envidiosos.

A small inscribed statuette base, found in Pincum (Veliko Gradiste), and belonging to the antiquities collector Imre Pongr?cz, was rediscovered recently in the deposits of the Banat Museum. This fact put in a new light all that we have known so far about this object, which was thought to be lost. The inscription is dedicated to Dulcenus, a form of the name of the deity Iuppiter Dolichenus, by two standard-bearers of the legio VII Claudia. In the upper part of the stone can be seen traces of the four hooves of an ox and the central quadrangular support by which the animal?s body was sustained. The ex voto can be determined chronologically, by the style of the letters and the form of the message, to the 3rd century AD.

International audience; Publication of the Greek and Latin inscriptions in the archaeological collection of the Université du Saint-Esprit at Kaslik (Lebanon). Most of the texts are funerary and were found in Sidon —for four of them— and in other locations of the Roman and Byzantine Near East.; Publication des inscriptions grecques et latines de la collection archéologique de l’Université du Saint-Esprit à Kaslik (Liban). Elle est constituée de textes surtout funéraires qui proviennent de Sidon pour quatre d'entre eux, mais aussi d'autres sites du Proche-Orient romano-byzantin.

The present article is a study of two linen fabrics that have an inscription in cursive Latin of very high interest. Both tissues are preserved in the Biblical and Oriental Museum of Leon and have an uncertain origin. The two pieces, which are decontextualized, have the same measure, 17 cm wide and 34 cm high. The text is Christian but has certain gaps. It is a repeated invocation to Jesus, who presents Him as the Beginning and the End of all, and qualifies Him repeatedly as Holy. These attributes are proper to God (Apocalypse 1,4; 1,8; 4,8), and being assigned to Jesus, seem to deny the human nature of Christ, which makes us think of a text of heretical character with a clear relationship with Monarchianism or Sabellianism (II-III centuries AD). Sabellianism spread through Libya and Egypt from the third century onwards, which can approximate the text dating between the third and fifth centuries. A technical analysis of both the linen and the ink in which papyrus remains have been found entangled, was performed, indicating that it comes from a workshop in which linen or papyrus was made indistinctly, something that was common in the workshops of Egyptian craftsmen. A textual analysis was also performed enhancing the links with some passages of Apocalypse.

El trabajo pretende poner de relieve la gran riqueza formal y de con-tenido de este epitafio latino (CIL II2/7, 389), conservado en el restaurante "El Caballo Rojo" de Córdoba, como un testimonio más del elevado nivel cultural de la Corduba de los ss. II - III d.C. Con esa finalidad se hace un comentario que abarca aspectos lingüísticos, prosódicos, literarios, histó-ricos etc. del mismo This paper attempts to high light the great formal riches, as well as its contents, of a Latin epitaph (CIL II2/7, 389), preserved in the Restaurant “El Caballo Rojo” of Cordova, as a witness, among others, of the high cultural level in the Corduba of the 2nd-3rd centuries A.D. With this pur-pose, we offer a linguistic, prosodic, literary and historical commentary on such epitaph

In this paper we edit a new Latin inscription found in Sansomain (NA), which refers to the foundation of Ologite by the Goth king Suintila., Editamos en este trabajo una nueva inscripción latina hallada en Sansomain (NA), que hace referencia a la fundación de Ologite por parte del rey godo Suintila.

Pri dnu zida stare kamene konobe u Baški nađen je dosad nepoznati latinski natpis. Spomenik se opisuje i tumači te se objavljuje čitanje i prijevod natpisa. Riječ je o nadgrobnom spomeniku koji se datira u prvu polovicu 2. stoljeća. Pretpostavlja se da bi mogao potjecati s rimske nekropole na nalazištu Sv. Marko., A fragment of a limestone stele was found in Baška near the base of the wall of an old stone house (Kružna St 29). The inscription reads: - - - For]/tunatạ[e - - - paren]/tibus pii[ssimis - - -]/ Q(uinto) Arrio [- - -]/frat(ri) po[sterisque - - -]/suis [- - -. It is dated to the first half of the 2nd century AD. The monument might have come from the Roman necropolis at the nearby St. Mark site in Baška.

In this paper we edit a new Latin inscription found in Sansomain (NA), which refers to the foundation of Ologite by the Goth king Suintila. Editamos en este trabajo una nueva inscripción latina hallada en Sansomain (NA), que hace referencia a la fundación de Ologite por parte del rey godo Suintila.