Archäometrische Untersuchungen phönizischer Keramik aus Tavira (Portugal)

Abstract

Tavira is one of the cities on the Iberian Peninsula looking back on an extremely longstanding occupation. In the first half of the 1st millennium BC, Tavira was an important Iron Age settlement with a significant Phoenician material fallout. This conclusion is primarily based on archaeological investigations in the old town carried out in the last twenty years. Within the framework of the project »Archaeometric Investigations of Phoenician Pottery from the Iberian Peninsula« 40 samples of Phoenician pottery from Tavira, dating between the end of the 8th and the mid-5th century BC, were analyzed with multiple methods for their chemical composition. The majority of the samples is clustered in one group and therefore was manufactured in a single production center which was active over a long period of time. Most likely, this center can be localized in Tavira itself or in its surroundings.