PROJECTS OF THE IUA

This project, promoted by the Unione Accademica Nazionale, is an initiative which at once met with full support from several Mediterranean countries, including Spain and Tunisia, and received their active collaboration. The object of the research is to list, classify and study the artistic and epigraphical monuments of the Phoenician and Punic civilization in association with the most important museums and with local and private collections, in order to build up a coherent body of documentation which will be published in its various categories as the work proceeds.

Meanwhile, to allow a wide and easy consultation of the results, items and data will be recorded through a suitable system of computerized archives. On the basis of this programme, the project, during the first four years of its activity, has produced comprehensive studies of several significant classes of discoveries from Phoenician-Punic Sardinia, and a number of related monographs have been published each year in the volumes of the Corpus. The fifth volume of the series is currently in preparation.

Finally, a data-bank of Phoenician and Punic stelae found in Italy has been set up, with text and images recorded on a video-disk. The system gives catalogue entries, references, bibliography and illustrations for about 3,500 stelae. It is anticipated that this data-bank will in the future be expanded to include other categories of antiquities.

The project was adopted by the UAI in Category C in 1990 on the initiative of the Unione Accademica Nazionale.

Directed by the Unione Accademica Nazionale. Director : S. Moscati, 1990-1997, V. Tusa 1997-