From April 3rd to 7th, the Mariana Museum received Inrap specialists in its research center for a work session on the re-examination of archaeological data from the formerly excavated Mariana funerary areas.

The recent discovery of a funerary area, north of the ancient city, is at the origin of this research project and motivated a global re-examination of all the funerary furniture unearthed in the 1960s-1970s by Geneviève Moracchini-Mazel in the necropolises of I Ponti and Murotondo-Palazzetto, respectively to the east and west of the city. To carry out this ambitious project, Inrap brought together a multidisciplinary team made up of specialists in small furniture, ceramics, an anthropologist and an archaeozoologist, associated with the management of the museum's collections. This study benefits from the scientific and financial support of the SRA and Inrap.

For the museum, it is an opportunity to put together all the furniture from the old excavations of the necropolises, to refine our knowledge of these objects, and above all to have a global vision of the funeral rites in Mariana. This work will make it possible both to bring out local specificities in the treatment reserved for the dead and to highlight influences on a Mediterranean scale. Eventually, an illustrated catalog that synthesizes this re-reading of old data with regard to new discoveries should be published.