Die Römischen Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts sind
eine jährlich im Dezember zur Winckelmann-Adunanz erscheinende
Zeitschrift. Sie fördern den internationalen wissenschaftlichen
Austausch in den Bereichen Archäologie, Kunst und Architektur Italiens
und angrenzender Gebiete. Die Zeitschrift versteht sich als Plattform
für die Vorstellung und Diskussion der materiellen Kultur von der
prähistorischen Zeit bis ins Frühmittelalter mit traditionellem
Schwerpunkt auf der klassischen Antike. Veröffentlicht werden Beiträge
von Einzelstudien bis zu Überblicken von Grabungsergebnissen, die ein
doppeltes blindes Peer-review-Verfahren durchlaufen haben.
Der Katalog als digitales Supplement zum Artikel "I bolli laterizi
delle residenze imperiali sul Palatino a Roma" (Évelyne Bukowiecki -
Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt) kann unter
Two seasons of
excavation (1996 and 1997) have been completed at the "subterranean
rotunda" southeast of the Basilica Damous-el-Karita on the outskirts of
ancient Carthage (Blg. 1/15, 16; Blg. 3; Abb. 1). 'Me purpose of the
present study was re-evaluate the structures, construction period,
finiction and wider significance of what was undoubtedly one of the most
important Christian pilgrimage complexes in Norther Africa. The
rectangular structure, which connected the basilica to the rotunda and
has been seen as a porticus-fi-amed court turned out to be a
three-aisled, basilica-Eke hall without an apse. The date of
construction could be put at late fourth/early fifth century AD.
Subsequently the structurre had been substantially rebuilt in two
phases, firstly sometime between 530/565 AD and secondly at the end of
the 6th to the beginning of the 7th century AD. A search of the literary
sources allows one to tentatively suggest that the church-complex,
known under its toponym "Damous-el-Kafita", could well be the celebrated
basilica Fausti (Teil 1. 4). After the reconquista of Northerm Africa
under the reign of emperor Justinian in 533 large hall (52 in by 30 in)
was transformed. This transformation involved extensive rebuilding. To
the north an atrium had been added. Whilst the eastern and western
aisles were now Ranked by a rebuilt series of small rooms used as burial
- cubicula (Blg. 1/14; Abb. 15). There is evidence for another
renovation of the hall at the end of the 6th to the beginning of the 7th
century by the construction of unsymmetrically situated ciborium
foundations (BIg. 1/14), that refer to a one meter higher floor level.
The rotunda was built no earlier than the second third of the 6th
century, taking over the area of a pagan cemetery (Teil M. 3; Abb. 20),
and is to be seen as an architectural mixtum compositurn (Teil M; BIg.
1, Blg. 3). As a Justinianic annex to the restored pilgrimage complex,
the building typologically consists of a sigma (semicircular forecourt
surrounded by a porticus; Tail 111. 4; Blg. 1/16), a martyriurn of the
central type (groundfloor-ordtory possibly with an opaion; Teil Ill. 6;
Abb. 86, Abb. 92) and a circular hall-crypt (sanctuary, Teil M. 5; Abb.
53, Abb. 59). Lateral, counterrotating staircases connect the different
parts of the martyrium and are designed for massive pilgrimcirculation.
'Me centre of the crypt formed a ciborium of yellow Numidian
marblestone, protecting the lost reliquary-shrine. The topography,
metrological conception (reil Ill. 8; Abb. 96), architectural design and
principle of pilgimage-circulation discussed above, suggests that this
building was the spiritual center of the early Byzantine, orthodox
pilgrimage complex of Damous-el-Karita. The design and the construction
of the building suggest that the architect was from the Eastern pails of
the empire, whilst the building force were native to Carthage. The
nexus of a rotunda with a sigma, can typologicaly be traced back to 5th
century AD palace-architecture in Constantinople. Elsewhere such a
design is unknown. The realisation of a congruent plan of groundfloor
and hall-crypt is until now unique in late antique architecture. As with
the basilical hall, the groundfloor building of the martyrium was
restyled and enlarged at the end of the 6th or at the beginning of 7th
century AD by the creation of an ambulatory. The building seems to have
fallen out of use some time around the end of that century. To sum up,
the subterranean rotunda behind the basilica Damous-elKarita in Carthage
was a two-perioded, early Byzantine martyriurn of the central type and
the religious centre of the largest pilgrimage complex so far discovered
in Carthage.
This volume serves as a contribution to the study of diasporas in
antiquity and a stimulus to further investigations of other ancient
diasporas and their effect. It is a culmination of discussions that took
place during the conference, Diasporas in Antiquity, held on the 30th
of April, 1992.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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