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Phoenician craftsmen in Greece (1)

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Earrings (2)
06 Visual arts and architecture
06.02 Artefacts
06.02.02 Jewellery
06.02.02.01 Earrings (2)
Pomegranate (1)
02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs
02.04 Botanical symbols, imagery and iconographic motifs
02.04.03 Fruits, flowers and parts of trees
02.04.03.02 Pomegranate (1)
Silver- and goldsmiths
07 Crafts and economy
07.03 Metallurgy
07.03.06 Smiths
07.03.06.03 Silver- and goldsmiths

Keywords
craftsmen
Greece
jewellery
Phoenicians

Period
9th century BCE
Greek Archaic Age

Channel
Iconographic tradition

Text
Several earrings, found in Athens and Eleusis in a context with different kinds of Phoenician imports, have shapes and decorations that are only paralleled by Phoenician jewellery. However, their design is not purely Phoenician. Furthermore, there are many surviving examples of this kind of earrings in Greece, and they are at the head of a series which becomes more and more Greek. Therefore, these finds suggest that there was in ninth century Athens a school of goldsmiths founded by Phoenicians and continued by Greek pupils.

Bibliography

Higgins 1969, 144-146

Higgins, R. A. “Early Greek Jewellery.” Annual of the British School at Athens 64 (1969) 143-153.

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Cf. Phoenician craftsmen in Greece (2)

Erik van Dongen

URL for this entry: http://www.aakkl.helsinki.fi/melammu/database/gen_html/a0001474.php

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