2006
DOI: 10.1017/s0003598x00093273
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Colonials, merchants and alabaster vases: the western Phoenician aristocracy

Abstract: Long characterised as merchants in pursuit of metals, the Phoenician settlers on the Iberian peninsula are here given an alternative profile. The author shows that a new aristocracy, visible in the archaeology of both cemeteries and settlements, was engaged in winning a social advancement denied it at home in the east. In particular, the Egyptian alabaster vases found in Spain, far from being the products of pillage or trade, were appreciated as prestige objects which often ended their days as receptacles for … Show more

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“…Some were clearly established to capitalize upon trade opportunities for metal resources, like Gadir and, to a lesser extent, settlements in Sardinia, while others clearly served other purposes, such as to control sea routes, like Carthage, or for agricultural output, such as the Malaga coastline settlements and perhaps those of Sicily and Sardinia. López Castro's recent study of Egyptian alabaster vases in Phoenician funerary and urban contexts in Spain highlights that locally, these colonists were engaged in achieving social advancement through the use of prestige objects, irrespective of the primary function of their settlements with regard to Mediterranean exchange (López Castro 2006). In sum, these settlements, and their Greek counterparts, responded to and engaged with their local conditions, particularly if there was competition with other populations with pan-Mediterranean interests.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Some were clearly established to capitalize upon trade opportunities for metal resources, like Gadir and, to a lesser extent, settlements in Sardinia, while others clearly served other purposes, such as to control sea routes, like Carthage, or for agricultural output, such as the Malaga coastline settlements and perhaps those of Sicily and Sardinia. López Castro's recent study of Egyptian alabaster vases in Phoenician funerary and urban contexts in Spain highlights that locally, these colonists were engaged in achieving social advancement through the use of prestige objects, irrespective of the primary function of their settlements with regard to Mediterranean exchange (López Castro 2006). In sum, these settlements, and their Greek counterparts, responded to and engaged with their local conditions, particularly if there was competition with other populations with pan-Mediterranean interests.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…El descubrimiento en 2010 de una posible tumba de época arcaica en la c/ Hércules (CH) (Sáez y Belizón, 2014) a 500 m al N del núcleo urbano principal contribuye a dar peso a la hipótesis de la existencia de un cementerio arcaico en Erytheia (Niveau de Villedary, 2019b: 1370). Se trata de una tumba de incineración en fosa primaria, similar en cuanto al rito empleado a los enterramientos tardoarcaicos de Gadir, pero alejada del modelo habitual de las estructuras funerarias fenicias de esta época en otras zonas, tanto de las necrópolis «populares» planas -como la de la propia metrópolis oriental de Tiro-Al-Bass (Aubet, 2010;Aubet et al, 2015) o la de Ayamonte (García Teyssandier et al, 2018)-, como de las segmentarias de corte «aristocrático» (López Castro, 2006), pues en ambos casos el rito funerario es la incineración secundaria y la posterior deposición de las cenizas en urnas. Tampoco los materiales hallados en el interior de la estructura gaditana responden al servicio funerario normalizado de los enterramientos fenicios: ni mediterráneos, ni gaditanos.…”
Section: La Necrópolis Arcaica De Erytheiaunclassified
“…Es en este contexto en el que la aristocracia colonial fenicia (López Castro, 2006) estableció relaciones con las élites emergentes locales suministrándoles mediante el intercambio de dones un conjunto de bienes de alta calidad como expresión de las prácticas sociales de la realeza y la aristocracia orientales, que reforzaran las diferencias sociales en el seno de la sociedad autóctona y ayudaran a la reproducción de las élites a cambio del acceso a determinadas materias primas y de alianzas políti-cas (López Castro, 2013: 518-519). Sería así como determinados alimentos y las formas orientales de consumirlos fueron introducidos en los banquetes colectivos de las poblaciones autóctonas, los cuales jugaban un papel importante en la representación de las jerarquías sociales existentes y en la competición por la obtención de mayor rango y poder.…”
Section: Una Propuesta Interpretativaunclassified