Triangular courtyard house

In this Punic house at Carthago, there is a cistern similar to the tank in the house in the triangular courtyard. The North African one has a stone slab roof, unlike the one in the Tossal de Manises, which was covered with wooden beams on which the floor of the room is laid.

In the 2nd century BC, the city was abandoned. The cistern provides one of the proofs of this abandonment, since during the excavation a clogging of 2 metres in height was recorded, consisting of fine layers of silt and sand dragged by the water that would have entered the cistern (as can be seen in the following image), which is evidence that this cistern was not maintained with regular cleaning.

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