Bir Messaouda Basilica

Richard Miles is Professor of Roman History and Archaeology at the University of Sydney. He has written extensively on the archaeology and history of Punic, Roman and Late Antique North Africa. Simon Greenslade is a freelance archaeologist with over twenty-five years of experience working on a wide variety of sites in the United Kingdom, Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

• Background and acknowledgments Richard Miles 1. Late Antique Carthage: archaeological and historical contexts Richard Miles 2. The early history of Bir Messaouda: Punic and Roman Simon Greenslade and Richard Miles 3. The transition of Bir Messaouda in the early to mid-6th century AD Simon Greenslade and Richard Miles 4. The transition of Bir Messaouda in the later 6th century AD Simon Greenslade and Richard Miles 5. The baptistery and crypt Simon Greenslade and Richard Miles 6. The later history of the basilica Simon Greenslade and Richard Miles 7. The 6th-century mosaics at Bir Messaouda Jane Chick 8. Plaster Claudia Goodbrand 9. The glass from the excavation at Bir Messaouda Sylvia Fünfschilling 10. The Bir Messaouda pottery Claudia Goodbrand Appendix 1 11. The coins Stefan Krmnicek 12. Metal building materials, personal and utilitarian objects and other small metal finds Ralf Bockmann 13. Ceramic building material from the Bir Messaouda Excavations 2000–2002 Philip Mills 14. The stone finds Ben Croxford Appendix 1: The marble typology Appendix 2: Catalogue of illustrated finds 15. Conclusions Richard Miles Appendix: The search for the Maritime Forum of Carthage John Whitehouse and Sami Harize Bibliography

…provides very thoughtful assessment of current approaches to the archaeology of 6th-century Christianity within North Africa.