**3. The Main Phases of the Necropolis Occupation**

The occupation of this necropolis under analysis, in the ancient world, was between the Bronze Age and the Suevo-Visigothic period. Indeed, the first occupation is documented by a tomb from the Bronze Age. Then, in the period before the reign of Augustus, the several ditches opened in the rock substrate and the existence of a dirt road were eventually related to a previous plan of the construction of Via XVII, built in the beginning of the 1st century AD. In the same period, and associated with it, the necropolis was implemented. In the middle of the 1st century AD, N.A.2 (Building R05, Figure 3) was built and subject to a first remodeling in the second half of the same century, with its internal compartmentalization. During the following century, the building benefited from a second reform, where a new compartmentalized space was built. During the second half of the 3rd century AD and the beginning of the 4th century AD, this necropolis space was less used, probably due to the existence of other burial areas in the city. The abandonment of N.A.2, as a funerary space, was in the 4th or 5th centuries AD, when a glass workshop was built on top of it. Between the 5th and 7th centuries AD, this entire area was no longer used as a necropolis.

**Figure 3.** Location of N.A.2 (Building R05).
