The search has conducted on
different sides: the investigation on the Carthaginian
institutions, with the study of the historical and archaeological
data related to the administrative and economic management of the
Punic Mediterranean; the study of the ethnic components of the
Punic society, with respect for the problem of the foreigner people
integration; the ritual uses and the religious mentality in the
Punic context; the handcraft and the contexts of productions.The examination of these subjects is conducted through the study
of the historical, archaeological, iconographical, numismatic and
epigraphic sources. Specific interest is directed besides to the most general
theme of the relationships between Carthage and the autochtonous
ones of the colonial sectors. In this sense, the job is consisted
of the study of some handicraft categories and on the evaluation of
data of excavation from installations of Phoenician and Punic
Sardinia. Particularly, moving from the investigations at Tharros, in the Southern necropolis, in the cardo maximus and on the Isthmus. Parallelly we have
set out investigations related to the religious customs and to the
ritual behaviors in use in the Phoenician and Punic society with
specific respect to the theme of the practice of music and dance in
the cult of the dead and in the sanctuaries.
