Recenti indagini alla necropoli fenicia di Pani Loriga

following contribution analyses the results from the excavation of Tomb 2016B using a multidisciplinary methodology involving different professional figures; from geologists to archaeologists, from anthropologists to palaeobotanists and chemists. The results come from a double grave in an elongated rectangular pit cut into a rhyolite bed. The inhumation rite – very rarely practiced at Pani Loriga, where cremation predominates – the monumental type of tomb, characterised by a cover of worked slabs resting on ledges and two symmetrical cavities at the bottom of the pit near the short sides and finally some funerary vases allow us to link Tomb 2016B to Tomb 33, excavated in the last century by Ferruccio Barreca, and to a group of Monte Sirai burials, including Tomb 88, the suggested burial place of a person from Carthage. These assessments seem increasingly probable in the light of new discoveries, which highlight the movement of wealthy individuals, probably merchants, in the first half of the sixth century BC, from the area around the current Gulf of Tunis to central and south-western Sardinia.