The Punic Mediterranean
Identities and Identification from Phoenician Settlement to Roman Rule

Editors

Josephine Crawley Quinn, University of Oxford
Josephine Crawley Quinn is University Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow and Tutor of Worcester College, and works on Mediterranean history and archaeology. She has a particular interest in ancient North Africa, but has published articles on topics from Roman imperialism to Athenian sculpture to Carthaginian child sacrifice to Edwardian education, and she co-edited another volume of essays on The Hellenistic West (with Jonathan Prag, Cambridge, 2013). She co-directs, with Andrew Wilson and Elizabeth Fentress, the excavations at Utica (Tunisia) as well as, with Jonathan Prag, the Oxford Centre for Phoenician and Punic Studies. She is currently writing a book on Phoenicianism from Homer to the Arab Spring.

Nicholas C. Vella, University of Malta
Nicholas C. Vella is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Malta. His research interests are varied and include the historiography of antiquarianism and archaeological practice in the Mediterranean, later Mediterranean prehistory, and Phoenician and Punic ritual practices. He has co-edited Debating Orientalization (2006) with Corinna Riva, and has recently published another collection of essays on the Maltese Bronze Age with Davide Tanasi. He supervised the University of Malta excavations at the Phoenician sanctuary site of Tas-Silġ in Malta between 1996 and 2005, and has co-edited the final report that is forthcoming with Peeters (Leuven). He co-directed the excavations of a small Punic shrine in Gozo (Malta) between 2005 and 2010, and is co-director of a field-walking project in Malta.

Contributors

Josephine Crawley Quinn, Nicholas C. Vella, Jonathan R. W. Prag, Peter van Dommelen, Sandro Filippo Bondì, Carlos Gómez Bellard, Suzanne Frey-Kupper, Boutheina Maraoui Telmini, Roald Docter, Babette Bechtold, Fethi Chelbi, Winfred van de Put, Habib Ben Younès, Alia Krandel-Ben Younès, Virginie Bridoux, Emanuele Papi, Alicia Jiménez, Carmen Aranegui Gascó, Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz Sánchez, Andrea Roppa, Corinne Bonnet, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill