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Some scholars have been skeptical that all of the urns represent sacrifice victims, but the context seems clear to most and other, similar Tophets have been uncovered in other Phoenician cities of the same period at Hadrumentum, Sicily, and Sardinia. <ref> Rundin, p. 425</ref> Therefore, the archaeological evidence at Carthage corroborates the classical references of child sacrifice and the earlier historical precedents established by the Carthaginians’ Semitic ancestors.
===Conclusion===