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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Punic Town of Kerkuane and its Necropolis' has mentioned 'Town' in the following places:
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| KerkouaneShown within TunisiaLocationNabeul Governorate, TunisiaCoordinates36xc2xb056xe2x80xb247xe2x80xb3N 11xc2xb005xe2x80xb257xe2x80xb3Exefxbbxbf / xefxbbxbf36.946389xc2xb0N 11.099167xc2xb0Exefxbbxbf / 36.946389; 11.099167 UNESCO World Heritage SiteOfficial namePunic Town of Kerkuane and its NecropolisTypeCulturalCriteriaiiiDesignated1985 (9th session)Referencexc2xa0no.332UNESCO RegionArab States | WIKI |
| UNESCO declared the Punic town of Kerkouane and its necropolis a World Heritage Site in 1985, citing among other things that the remains constitute the only example of a Phoenicio-Punic city to have survived. | WIKI |
| The name Kerkouane was given to the town by archaeologists. | WIKI |
| Kerkouane is a small town and was probably never home to more than 1,200 people, mostly fishermen and craftsmen. | WIKI |
| Based on the presence of many murex shells, it would appear that the town produced purple dye, in addition to salt and garum (a food product). | WIKI |
| Excavations of the town have revealed ruins and coins from the 4th and 3rd centuries BC. | WIKI |
| The town was built on a grid with wide streets and public squares. | WIKI |
| The houses were built to a standard plan, in accordance with a sophisticated notion of town planning. | WIKI |
| Traces of red ochre found in excavated tombs are common also to native Libyan burial customs, but the religious and architectural traditions of the town are predominantly of Carthaginian style. | WIKI |
| A black-figure wine jug decorated with a scene from The Odyssey found with an Ionian cup, and Greek architectural elements like peristyle courtyards and stucco plaster decorations found among the remains of upscale private homes, show the town was influenced by the culture of the greater Mediterranean world. | WIKI |
| The Punic Town of Kerkuane, located at the tip of Cape Bon on a cliff that dominates the sea, bears exceptional witness to Phoenician-Punic town planning. | UNESCO |
| The site of the Punic Town of Kerkuane was discovered in 1952. | UNESCO |
| The earliest known testimonies at the site would date back to the 6th century BCxc2xa0; whereas the ruins, today visible at the site, date back to the end of the 4th, first half of the 3rd century BC and bear witness to sophisticated town planning. | UNESCO |
| The Necropolis of Arg el Ghazouani, located on a rocky hill less than one kilometer from the town, bears invaluable witness to Punic funerary architecture of this period; it concerns the most well preserved portion of the great necropolis of Kerkuane, the tombs of which are scattered throughout the coastal hills at the tip of Cap Bon. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iii): The Punic Town of Kerkuane, never reinhabited since it was abandoned towards the middle of the 3rd century BC, bears exceptional witness to Phoenician-Punic town planning. | UNESCO |
| This is the unique known Punic city in the Mediterranean harbouring a mine of information on town planning (development of space respecting a pre-established general plan: wide and fairly straight streets form a checkerboard network, the squares of which are filled with the insulae) and architecture (defence, domestic, religious, artisanal structures, construction techniques and materials). | UNESCO |
| The Punic Town of Kerkuane has preserved all its architectural and town planning components, which are located at the boundary of the property. | UNESCO |
| Following its destruction by Regulus around 255 BC, the town was abandoned and, contrary to other Punic cities which after the fall of the Carthaginian metropolis, were Romanised and lost their Punic features, Kerkuane was never reinhabited. | UNESCO |
| The xc2xabxc2xa0punicityxc2xa0xc2xbb of Kerkuane is perfectly reflected in the architecture, town planning, life style (it appears to have been largely city-dwellers), the socio-economic life (diversity and wealth of economic activity), as well as some religious and funerary practices. | UNESCO |