Un ánfora ática de la ›Botkin Class‹ en Huelva y la fecha final del emporion focense

Abstract

Among the archaic Greek ceramics recovered in Huelva has been identified a fragment of the Attic amphora of the ›Botkin Class‹, attributed to ›Phrynos Painter‹, dated c. 550 B. C. This fragment, with some fragments of early Little Master cups, is the most modern among Greek archaic imports of quality in Huelva, in which there are no vessels of the Class E, Exekias, Amasis, and other painters of the second half of the sixth century B. C. For this reason, this fragment of the Botkin Class marks the abrupt end of the Ionian trade in Tartessos c. 545 B. C. This chronology coincides with the date of the conquest of Phocaea by the attack of Harpagus in 546 B. C., according to Herodotus (Hdt. 1, 164), which indicates a direct relationship between these events and the abandonment of Huelva by the Phoceans, determinant in the crisis of Tartessos, formerly dated in the last third of the sixth century B. C.