The study of the interface contexts between the Phoenicians and the indigenous communities in the colonized areas in terms of ceramic repertoires, requires a double perspective, that of the identification of the Levantine models in the early Red Slip Phoenician wares, and that of the transformations brought about by the arrival of the Phoenicians, both in the local repertoires and in the Phoenician ceramics themselves. In the case of Malta, these processes are blurred by the scarcity of the contexts, mostly of a funerary nature and often unreliable, in which traces of the two different cultures coexist. Nevertheless, it is possible to identify points of contact and mutual influence in the case studies presented, thus placing Malta within the dynamics of exchange and interaction between the Phoenicians and the indigenous peoples already known in other central Mediterranean colonies such as Utica, Motya and Sulky.
EARLY PHOENICIAN RED SLIP WARE AT MALTA: SOME CHRONOLOGICAL ISSUES / Spagnoli, Federica. - In: QUADERNI DI ARCHEOLOGIA FENICIO PUNICA. - ISSN 1824-4017. - 9:(2024), pp. 23-35. (Intervento presentato al convegno Red Slip in Central and Western Mediterranean between the 9th and the 6th century BC. Tracking Lasting Features, Local Peculiarities and Technological Innovations. Proceedings of the Workshop held in Rome, Museum of Near East, Egypt and Mediterranean, Sapienza University of Rome, 24th of May 2022. Edited by Federica Spagnoli tenutosi a Roma).
EARLY PHOENICIAN RED SLIP WARE AT MALTA: SOME CHRONOLOGICAL ISSUES
Federica Spagnoli
Primo
Writing – Review & Editing
2024
Abstract
The study of the interface contexts between the Phoenicians and the indigenous communities in the colonized areas in terms of ceramic repertoires, requires a double perspective, that of the identification of the Levantine models in the early Red Slip Phoenician wares, and that of the transformations brought about by the arrival of the Phoenicians, both in the local repertoires and in the Phoenician ceramics themselves. In the case of Malta, these processes are blurred by the scarcity of the contexts, mostly of a funerary nature and often unreliable, in which traces of the two different cultures coexist. Nevertheless, it is possible to identify points of contact and mutual influence in the case studies presented, thus placing Malta within the dynamics of exchange and interaction between the Phoenicians and the indigenous peoples already known in other central Mediterranean colonies such as Utica, Motya and Sulky.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
