出版社:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要:The main purpose of this paper is to analyse the incidence and functionality of the monetary depositions located in the graves of the late Punic necropolis of Gadir. We have carried out a systematic extraction of the information found in the reports of the mainly unpublished archaeological excavations in Cadiz. The detailed study of this data permits us to assess how the money was used in the various actions that constituted the funerary ceremony (both inhumations and cremations), so as to reconstruct the range of ritual moments when coins were required. The evidence is sparse, but it shows how coinage was assimilated in multiple ways to the beliefs and the liturgy of the traditional Phoenician funerary ritual in Gadir.
关键词:Mortuary archaeology;Ancient numismatics;Cadiz;3rd to 1st centuries B.C.;Funeral ceremonies;Arqueología de la muerte;Numismática Antigua;Cádiz;Siglos III-I a.C.;Ceremonial fúnebre