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Title: | A face from the past : death ritual in Punic Malta |
Authors: | Vella, Nicholas C. |
Keywords: | Malta -- Antiquities, Punic Carthaginians -- Malta Carthaginians -- Rites and ceremonies |
Issue Date: | 2012 |
Publisher: | Universita degli Studi di Cagliari |
Citation: | Vella, N. C. (2012). A face from the past : death ritual in Punic Malta - Epi oinopa ponton : studi sul Mediterraneo antico in ricordo di Giovanni Tore. Cagliari: Universita degli Studi di Cagliari. 299-314. |
Abstract: | On 19th January 1918 the curator of the Valletta museum, Themistocles Zammit, was summoned to a rocky plateau outside Rabat (Malta) to inspect two rock-cut tombs that had been discovered there by accident (Fig. 1) . This was not the first discovery in the area of Qallilija (previously known as Kallilija). In July of the previous year, Zammit had excavated and recorded another tomb , whereas in the autumn of 1912 at least eight tombs had been investigated together with one each in 1914 and 1916 . What was unique about the 1918 find, however, was the discovery of a face sculpted in relief inside one of the tombs. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/15490 |
ISBN: | 9788895701318 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtCA |
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