Banquets rituels dans la nécropole punique de <i>Gadir</i>
- Niveau de Villedary y Mariñas, Ana María
- Castro Páez, Encarnación
ISSN: 1780-3187, 2034-2101
Año de publicación: 2008
Volumen: 6
Número: 2
Páginas: 7-45
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Food and History
Resumen
The excavations carried out since the end of the Nineteenth century in Cadiz (Spain) have brought to light a great part of the Punic cemetery (6th–3rd centuries BC) of the ancient Phoenician colony of Gadir. Close to the graves have been found a group of structures and materials that bear witness to the regular practice of burial feasts. In order to define the types of foods consumed during these ritual meals, as well as to determine their possible symbolic meaning, we analyse, on the one hand, the pottery remains (carrying containers, cooking pottery and tableware) and, on the other hand, the organic remains (most specifically those pertaining to mammals, fish and molluscs).