328 Martorelli
that this area was also already urbanized in the Roman era, when it was en-
larged with a new quarter.61
Archaeological evidence from a cemetery in the eastern suburb of Vico III
Lanusei was dated to the late antique or early medieval period by a coin of
the Emperor Tiberius III Apsimaros (698–705), which was found in a layer of
dirt over the graves with clear traces of fire (Fig. 12.5). The coin was minted
at Cagliari after the defeat of Carthage (Figs 12.6–12.7). Other objects discov-
ered in the cemetery do not show traces of life in this area until the end of
2004); Rossana Martorelli, “La transizione dall’antichità al medioevo del quartiere di
Marina,” in Il quartiere di Marina a Cagliari. Ricostruzione di un contesto urbano pluristrat-
ificato, ed. Giancarlo Deplano (Monfalcone, 2005), p. 32.
61 Martorelli, Mureddu, Pinna, and Sanna, “Nuovi dati sulla topografia di Cagliari,” pp. 394–
395; Martorelli, “Cagliari in età tardoantica”; Martorelli, “La transizione dall’antichità al
medioevo,” p. 32.
Figure 12.4
Cagliari, archaeological area
under the church of S. Eulalia,
the cistern.
photo: author.