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Document Details : Title: Zum Nachweis zyprischer und phönizischer Westexpeditionen am Beginn des ersten Jahrtausends v. Chr. Author(s): DÖRRER, Olaf Journal: Ancient West & East Volume: 22 Date: 2023 Pages: 1-34 DOI: 10.2143/AWE.22.0.3292239 Abstract : The Phoenician westward expeditions of the 10th century BC mentioned in the written records were not provable by archaeologists for a long time. In the meantime extensive ensembles of phoenician ceramics from Iberian sites shed light on a developed pre-colonial trade down from the late 9th century BC. Only single finds of the 10th and early 9th century BC are to be consulted for the precedent stage without any permanent presence of the eastmediterranean seafarers. For these items various structures of maritime contacts on stages of the Mediterraneum that existed in the background at that time are to be considered as well as agents. But the reception of a special fibula costume in the central and western Mediterraneum, for which an eastern model is beyond all doubt, is not explicable without the assumption of Cypriote and/or Phoenician seafarers. In this context the low amount of eastern mediterranean archaeological reports will be explained as a result of the one-sided orientation to metallurgical needs. |
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