SULLA PERCEZIONE DEL ‘FEMMININO’ NELLO SPAZIO FUNERARIO DI THARROS PUNICA

Abstract

Regarding the treatment of women in the funerary spaces of Punic Tharros we do not have enough information to reconstruct a coherent picture. Most of the contexts, in fact, have been altered by clandestine looting. However, some gold jewellery expressing the cult of Astarte recovered from the grave goods allow us to make some considerations on the role of the feminine in Tharros' society. In particular, it is possible to detect a connection between the spread of female cults in Tharros and the specific organisation of some grave goods.