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Field photograph·Csn1716·1927–1931

Basilica next to Ste Monique at Carthage

Plan and section drawings of the basilica next to Ste Monique at Carthage, on a printed plate
Photograph: Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–31. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, Csn1716. Public domain (CC0).

Description

A printed plate with a ground plan of a long basilica, its nave and side areas filled with small rectangular marks for tombs, and a rounded end at the left. Above it is a longitudinal section drawn over a hillside, with a small inset map at upper right and a column of printed text down the right-hand side. Smaller detail drawings of a tomb sit at the right.

English, translated from the Swedish record

North Africa. Basilica next to Ste Monique, Carthage 47. This basilica, with its presbytery, the bases of its ciborium, its atrium and its underground structure, with its well and cistern, was discovered in 1915. It was filled with burials, and more than 9000 fragments of Christian epitaphs were collected from it.

Swedish, as on the record

Föremålsbild, fynd från Svenska cypernexpeditionen. Nord-Afrika. BASILIQUE VOISINE DE STE MONIQUE Kartago 47 Cette basilique avec son presbytérium les bases de son cciborium, avec son atrium et sa construction souterraine,, avec son puits et sa citerne, a été écouverte en 1915. Elle était remplie de sépultures et on y a recueili plus de 9000 fragments d'epitaphes chrétiennes.