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The site of Henchir Bourgou located on the northeast coast of Jerba was inhabited from Prehistory until Late Antiquity. It was probably the most important town and the capital of this island in Punic times. Its prosperity, for which there is evidence from imposing monuments such as the famous mausoleum and two Hellenistic temples recently uncovered, could be explained not only by its agricultural resources properly developed, but also from its flourishing maritime trade throughout the port of Ghizène. In Roman Imperial times, Henchir Bourgou became less important: the urban space had become smaller: gradually it had been replaced by another town set to be the capital of the Island for many centuries: Meninx.
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The archaeological excavation conducted in Ghizène (northeast of the island of Jerba) between December 2008 and January 2009 unveiled a stratigraphy that runs, chronologically speaking, from the 6th century BC to the 1st century AD. In addition to the fishing resources concealed at the site, which can be inferred from the huts and various remains of fishermen discovered there, Ghizène seems to have been a Punic trading port – probably of Phoenician origin – very open to the Mediterranean trade. Thus we can explain the presence, in this island settlement, of ceramics imported from several sites around the Mediterranean, including Carthage, Athens, Corinth, Sicily, Southern Italy, Etruria, Malta, and even the Phoenician Levant
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This paper presents the results of the geophysical prospection conducted at the site of Meninx (Jerba) in 2015. This was the first step in a Tunisian-German project (a cooperation between the Institut National du Patrimoine, Tunis, and the Institut für Klassische Archäologie der Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität München), the aim of which is to shed light on the urban history of the most important city on the island of Jerba in antiquity. Meninx, situated on the SE shore of the island (fig. 1), was the largest city on Jerba during the Roman Empire and eponymous for the island's name in antiquity. The outstanding importance of this seaport derived from the fact that it was one of the main production centers of purple dye in the Mediterranean. With the earliest secure evidence dating to at least the Hellenistic period, Meninx saw a magnificent expansion in the 2nd and 3rd c. A.D. It was inhabited until the 7th c. when the city was finally abandoned.
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The ancient site of Henchir Bourgou (Djerba), Tunisia, is the object of archaeological research conducted jointly by the Tunisian National Heritage Institute, the Ludwigs Maximilians University Munich and the German Archaeological Institute since 2017. The reports presents an overview on the activities in Henchir Bourgou done in 2017–2019 and gives an outlook on the potential of the site with its stratigraphy covering more than thousand years of settlement history.
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