526 Cadinu
3.1 1202: Relations between Tunis and the Sardinian giudicati
In a letter written from Tunis in 1202, Prince Almohad Abd er Rahman
wrote to Gherardo Visconti and the elders of Pisa to ask them not to support
medievale, pp. 147–149, tabs 52–53, 168–169; Marco Cadinu, “I foundouk e le trasformazi-
oni in atto nelle città mediterranee. Alcune riflessioni tra Marrakech, penisola iberica e
Italia meridionale,” Il tesoro delle città IV (2007), pp. 58–69.Figure 19.11 Large courts outside the first medieval walls indicate inn functions and can be
recognized as places for the fondaci of the mercantile city. They are easily identi-
fiable by their form and structure, divided into small cells arranged on two levels.
Shown from left, Cagliari inns, an Istanbul inn/warehouse, courts in Sassari;
below from left, Oristano courts, Bosa courts with “corte Intro” (A) ( from Cadinu
2001, tables 52 and 53).