Mobility, Identity and Community in Christian North Africa: the church and cemetery at Bulla Regia

Recipient	Corisande Fenwick
Date	01 April, 2025
Amount	£9717
Summary	The BILNAS flagship project Mobility, Identity and Community in Christian North Africa is a collaborative Tunisian-British project which excavated a Late Antique church and cemetery at the site of Bulla Regia between 2016-2023. The project seeks to understand the history and development of a Christian cemetery and funerary basilica and its role within the urban landscape and to reconstruct the diet, health, lifestyle, origins and mobility of the late antique population. Funding is sought for a robust radiocarbon dating programme and the completion of the ceramic analysis which will test and refine the chronology of the church and cemetery established during the excavations. The results will be published in a monograph under contract with BILNAS which will transform our understanding of the development of Christianity at Bulla Regia, and how its inhabitants experienced the changes of late antiquity.