Phoenicians in Spain
Greek and Roman historians and geographers told of men in ships who came to the southern shores of the Iberian Peninsula long before our era. They were said to have passed through the Pillars of Herakles and founded a fortified town, Gadir, at the site of modern Cadiz, a province in southwest Spain,...
| Published in: | The Biblical archaeologist |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Scholars Press
1992
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The Biblical archaeologist
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| Summary: | Greek and Roman historians and geographers told of men in ships who came to the southern shores of the Iberian Peninsula long before our era. They were said to have passed through the Pillars of Herakles and founded a fortified town, Gadir, at the site of modern Cadiz, a province in southwest Spain, where they built a temple to the Tyrian city god Melqart, or Herakles, his Greek epiphany. No traces of the temple have ever been found, but excavations in the early 1960s uncovered a cemetery above Almunecar, a seaside resort, which led to further excavations on a mound above the river Velez. As at the Almunecar cemetery, the bulk of the pottery that came to light at Velez revealed strong affinities to ceramics of the Iron Age Near East and raised several significant questions. Were these traces of the elusive Phoenicians? |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Biblical archaeologist
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3210238 |