The site of Sant’Imbenia has given back a large number of imported and local amphorae for the 8th and 7th centuries BC. The imported transport amphorae are related to Phoenician products both of North Africa (area of Carthage) and of Iberian Peninsula (Círculo del Estrecho), as the comparison between the technological characteristics and the morphological types of these productions shows clearly. The production and use of the Sant’Imbenia amphorae is one of the most ancient local type diffused on the Western Mediterranean area. Derived from Levantine prototypes, it was spread all over this part of Mediterranean, notably Carthage, Utica and in various settlements of Southern Spain. We have carried out archaeometric analysis in order to define an identikit of clays from the Sant’Imbenia area and to analyze the technological process of production. The relation between archaeometric and archaeological research brings into light new data and trends about these transport amphorae and underlines the importance of the change in social and economic organization.
Amphorae from Sant'Imbenia (Alghero, Sardinia) / Rendeli, Marco; Garau, Elisabetta; De Rosa, Beatrice. - (2022), pp. 237-253. (Intervento presentato al convegno Amphorae in the Phoenician-Punic world. The state of the art tenutosi a Gent nel 15th-17h December 2016).
Amphorae from Sant'Imbenia (Alghero, Sardinia)
Rendeli, Marco;Garau, Elisabetta
;De Rosa, Beatrice
2022-01-01
Abstract
The site of Sant’Imbenia has given back a large number of imported and local amphorae for the 8th and 7th centuries BC. The imported transport amphorae are related to Phoenician products both of North Africa (area of Carthage) and of Iberian Peninsula (Círculo del Estrecho), as the comparison between the technological characteristics and the morphological types of these productions shows clearly. The production and use of the Sant’Imbenia amphorae is one of the most ancient local type diffused on the Western Mediterranean area. Derived from Levantine prototypes, it was spread all over this part of Mediterranean, notably Carthage, Utica and in various settlements of Southern Spain. We have carried out archaeometric analysis in order to define an identikit of clays from the Sant’Imbenia area and to analyze the technological process of production. The relation between archaeometric and archaeological research brings into light new data and trends about these transport amphorae and underlines the importance of the change in social and economic organization.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
