Un escarabeo púnico con la iconografía de Isis kourotropha en la Necrópolis Ibérica III de Alarcos (Poblete, Ciudad Real)
[EN] This paper studies an unpublished scarab documented in Tomb 36 of the Iberian Necropolis iii at Alarcos, currently under excavation and study. Its production in steatite, the representation on the reverse of Isis kourotropha enthroned with Harpocrates and the distribution in the Mediterranean o...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/354068 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/354068 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Edad del hierro Cultura ibérica Península Ibérica Meseta sur Simbología Religiosidad South plateau Iron sge Symbology Religiosity Iberian culture Iberian peninsula |
| Sumario: | [EN] This paper studies an unpublished scarab documented in Tomb 36 of the Iberian Necropolis iii at Alarcos, currently under excavation and study. Its production in steatite, the representation on the reverse of Isis kourotropha enthroned with Harpocrates and the distribution in the Mediterranean of scarabs with this theme have allowed us to identify it as a western Phoenician-Punic production from the late 5th or early 4th century bc, possibly from the Sardinian enclave of Tharros as has been suggested for the rest of the scarabs with this iconography. The finding of a piece with this theme in a burial site could be related to the funerary conceptions of breast-feeding within Iberian religiosity. Thus, although the models are of an Egyptian type, the image was sufficiently explicit for it to be integrated into Iberian mentalities, and there was most probably a phenomenon of reformulation and adaptation in which this model served to identify the Iberian female divinity related to fertility and the regeneration of the life cycle. This divinity would also have funerary connotations, particularly those related to divine lactation and its possible link with the strengthening of the deceased in the Afterlife. |
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