The Phoenician Cemetery of Tyre

Aubet, M. Eugènia

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“…78 Few archaeologists have denied the role of belief in funeral ritual, but many today doubt its role as a primary cause of variability, statistics are misleading because each faience bead in a large faience necklace is calculated as one faience object (p. 127, Table 6.1). 74 Aubet (2004Aubet ( ) 59, (2010; Gamer-Wallert (2004). On the status of tombs: Aubet (2004) 61.…”

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Talismanic Practice at Lefkandi: Trinkets, Burials and Belief in the Early Iron Age

Arrington

2015

Camb. class. j.

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Excavations at Lefkandi have dispelled much of the gloom enshrouding the Early Iron Age, revealing a community with significant disposable wealth and with connections throughout the Mediterranean. The eastern imports in particular have drawn scholarly attention, with discussion moving from questions of production and transportation to issues surrounding consumption. This article draws attention to some limitations in prevalent socio-political explanations of consumption at Lefkandi, arguing that models relying on gift-exchange, prestige-goods and elite display cannot adequately account for the distribution, chronology, find context and function of imports at Lefkandi. A study of trinkets – small but manifestly foreign imports of cheap material – offers a new perspective. An analysis of their form, context, use and meaning demonstrates that trinkets were meaningfully and deliberately deposited with children as talismans or amulets. Talismanic practice had Late Bronze Age precedents, and in the Early Iron Age was stimulated from personal contact with the Near East or Cyprus and nurtured by the unique mortuary landscape at Lefkandi. This article demonstrates the need for archaeologists to treat mortuary beliefs as a meaningful explanatory variable. Moreover, the ability of non-elite objects to convey powerful ideas has important implications for the nature and dynamics of artistic and cultural exchanges between Greece and the East in the Iron Age.

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“… 74 Aubet (2004) 59, (2010); Gamer-Wallert (2004). On the status of tombs: Aubet (2004) 61. See also the discussion of exotica at Lachish in Heymans and van Wijngaarden (2011) 132–3. …”

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Talismanic Practice at Lefkandi: Trinkets, Burials and Belief in the Early Iron Age

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2015

Camb. class. j.

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“…The site was located on an 34 ancient beach of lacustrine environment that is nowadays ca. 500 m away from the 35 seashore (Aubet, 2004). Along these lines, we should note that an environmental study 36 carried out during the 1997 and 1999 archaeological missions (Carmona and Ruiz, 37 2004) enabled reconstruction of the paleolandscape of the Al Bass area.…”

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Characterisation of possible Phoenician pottery production of Tyre

Gascón

Garrigós

2013

Applied Clay Science

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“…Il carattere fenicio dell'insediamento è confermato dagli scavi alla vicina necropoli del Cortijo de San Isidro, che hanno portato al recupero di 12 tombe con rituale incineratorio, per le quali la disposizione e composizione dei corredi trova precisi paralleli nelle sepolture della coeva necropoli di al-Bass, a Tiro, oggetto di studi analitici da parte di M.E. Aubet (2004) e della sua équipe.…”

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Ripensando i contatti fra Sardegna e Penisola Iberica all’alba del I millennio a.C. Vecchie e nuove evidenze

Botto

2015

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The Phoenician Cemetery of Tyre

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Talismanic Practice at Lefkandi: Trinkets, Burials and Belief in the Early Iron Age

Talismanic Practice at Lefkandi: Trinkets, Burials and Belief in the Early Iron Age

Characterisation of possible Phoenician pottery production of Tyre

Ripensando i contatti fra Sardegna e Penisola Iberica all’alba del I millennio a.C. Vecchie e nuove evidenze

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