Studies on the early urban history of Meninx

梅宁克斯早期城市历史研究

• 批准号: 502479918
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Stefan Ritter
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Klassische Archäologie
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 资助国家: 德国
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/502479918?language=en
• 关键词: Studies; early; urban; history; Meninx

Meninx was the eponymous capital on the island of Djerba in Antiquity, and famous as one of the most important production centres of purple in the Mediterranean. The port city was founded in the 4th century BC and developed into one of the largest metropolises in Roman North Africa. The city first came to light archaeologically in the course of recent research, which provided information about the urban structure and the port facilities as well as first insights into the city's history.Based on these preliminary investigations, the project aims to answer fundamental open questions about the early urban development of Meninx through targeted excavations. The focus is on the centuries from the 4th century BC to the comprehensive reorganisation of the city that began in the Flavian-Trajan period. Meninx is of exemplary interest for the knowledge of the generally still little researched pre- and early Roman phases of ancient cities in North Africa and is also particularly suitable, as the early features are well accessible here and over a larger area.The excavations will be carried out in three parts of the city. Of particular interest is the area around the forum, under which the oldest settlement core lies. In this area, several excavation areas will be used to investigate the pre- and early imperial settlement features as well as the growing peripheral buildings of the square. In the north-eastern quarter around the theatre, which was developed from the Augustan period onwards, the presumed Isis sanctuary, a representative residential building, and a possible second public square will be explored. Finally, the history of the workshop quarter on the north-western periphery is to be examined to gain information on when this area was developed and whether, as can be assumed, the workshops for the production of purple were concentrated here. These investigations are expected to shed light on how one should imagine the settlement in the foundation phase, how the city expanded in the following centuries, and which areas it encompassed when it received its final structure, tangible in the magnetometer image, from the late 1st century AD onwards.The expected large variety of find material will first and foremost provide detailed insights into the everyday and economic life of Meninx and changes in living conditions in the course of the city's long history. In the regional reference system of Tripolitania, important further results are expected on the close-meshed micro-regional network which, in addition to Djerba, also included settlements on the opposite mainland. In the broader Mediterranean context, the import finds will provide more precise insights into the city's overseas long-distance trade relations, and it is hoped that they will also provide information on the extent to which the Meninx trading hub was integrated into the lively trans-Saharan trade of the Tripolitan coastal cities.

Meninx是古代杰尔巴岛上的同名首都，作为地中海最重要的紫色生产中心之一而闻名。这座港口城市始建于公元前4世纪，并发展成为罗马统治下北非最大的大都市之一。在最近的研究过程中，这座城市首次在考古学上被发现，这提供了有关城市结构和港口设施的信息，以及对这座城市历史的第一次了解。基于这些初步调查，该项目旨在通过有针对性的挖掘来回答关于Meninx早期城市发展的基本开放性问题。重点是从公元前4世纪到弗拉维亚-图拉真时期开始的城市全面重组的几个世纪。Meninx是一个典型的兴趣，对北非古代城市的前罗马和早期罗马阶段的研究仍然很少，而且特别适合，因为早期的特征在这里和更大的地区都很容易接近。挖掘工作将在城市的三个部分进行。特别令人感兴趣的是论坛周围的区域，最古老的聚落核心位于其下方。在这个区域，几个挖掘区域将被用来调查前和早期帝国定居的特征，以及日益增长的广场周边建筑。在剧院周围的东北地区，从奥古斯都时期开始发展，假定的Isis避难所，代表性的住宅建筑和可能的第二个公共广场将被探索。最后，将研究西北外围的车间区的历史，以获得关于该地区何时开发的信息，以及可以假设的是，生产紫色的车间是否集中在这里。这些调查有望揭示人们应该如何想象基础阶段的定居点，城市在接下来的几个世纪中如何扩张，以及从公元1世纪后期开始，当它获得最终结构时，它所包含的区域，在磁力计图像中是可见的。预期的大量发现材料将首先提供对Meninx日常和经济生活的详细见解，以及城市悠久历史过程中生活条件的变化。在的黎波里塔尼亚的区域参考系统中，预期将在紧密的微区域网取得重要的进一步成果，除杰尔巴外，还包括对面大陆的定居点。在更广阔的地中海背景下，这些进口发现将为了解该城市的海外长途贸易关系提供更准确的见解，并希望它们还将提供有关Meninx贸易中心与的黎波里沿海城市活跃的跨撒哈拉贸易整合程度的信息。