Punic Workshops

The area, located within and close to the city walls, was used as early as Punic times both as a living quarter and for craft activities, and a pottery workshop was based there, manufacturing amphorae in the second half of the 4th cent. BC. In Roman times, at least until the 1st century BC. , the place continued to be inhabited and then, perhaps due to rising from the water table, was abandoned and partly swamped. In imperial times, between Hadrian or, more likely, between the Antonines and Severans, the marsh was reclaimed, the ground level was raised by the accumulation of topsoil, and the aqueduct was built.

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