Phoenicians in the iberian peninsula and the matter of Tartessos

In Greek and Roman sources, Tartessos designates a geographical area and a legendary kingdom that flourished in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula between the eighth and seventh centuries BCE. For decades, much research on pre-Roman Iberia has gravitated around the nature of Tartessos as an hist...

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Published in:Journal of the American Oriental Society
Subtitles:Review Articles
Main Author: Rubio, Gonzalo (Author)
Format: Electronic Review
Language:English
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Published: American Oriental Society January-March 2020
In: Journal of the American Oriental Society
Review of:Tartessos and the Phoenicians in Iberia (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016) (Rubio, Gonzalo)
Further subjects:B Book review
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Summary:In Greek and Roman sources, Tartessos designates a geographical area and a legendary kingdom that flourished in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula between the eighth and seventh centuries BCE. For decades, much research on pre-Roman Iberia has gravitated around the nature of Tartessos as an historical or mythical polity, its possible location, and the archaeological identification of Tartessic material culture. It seems now increasingly clear that what the Greeks called Tartessos was inextricably linked to the presence of Phoenician culture in the area. It is thus only fitting that the first book about the subject to be published in English approaches the evidence with a special focus on patterns and phenomena of cultural and economic contact between the Phoenicians and the locals.
ISSN:2169-2289
Contains:Enthalten in: American Oriental Society, Journal of the American Oriental Society
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.7817/jameroriesoci.140.1.0219