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Excavating Roman Carthage: two contrasting (French and German) reports - CATHERINE BALMELLE, ARIANE BOURGEOIS, HENRI BROISE, JEAN-PIERRE DARMON, MONGI ENNAÏFER, avec la collaboration de Claude Brenot, Suzanne Gozlan et Marie-Pat Raynaud, CARTHAGE, COLLINE DE L'ODÉON. MAISONS DE LA ROTONDE ET DU CRYPTOPORTIQUE (RECHERCHES 1987-2000) (Recherches d'archéologie africaine publiées par l'Institut National du Patrimoine de Tunisie et L'École française de Rome; Collection de l'École française de Rome 457, 2012). Vol. 1. L'Architecture Et Son Décor. Pp. xii + 1-380. Vol. 2. Les Données de Fouilles. Pp. viii + 381-840. Total of 591 figs., most in colour, several folding, Tableaux 96. ISBN for the set: 978-2-7283-0881-1; ISSN 5099-. EUR 480,00. - HEIMO DOLENZ und CHRISTOF FLÜGEL, mit Beiträgen von H. R. Baldus, J. Eingartner, E. Flügel, A. Gerdes, J. Heinrichs, T. Schäfer, K. Schmidt, F. Schön, M. Sieler, B. Tremmel und B. Zach, DIE DEUTSCHEN AUSGRABUNGEN IN KARTHAGO. RÖMISCHE UND BYZANTINISCHE GROSSBAUTEN AM DECUMANUS MAXIMUS (Karthago Band IV; Deutsches Archäologisches Institut; Institut National du Patrimoine - Tunis; Verlag Philipp von Zabern, Darmstadt/Mainz 2012). S. x + 254, Abb. 40, Beilagen 21, Taf. 25, Farbtaf. 4. ISBN 978-3-80534467-8. EUR 89,00.
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