RT Journal Article
T1 Battles Beneath the Sea: Phoenician Votive Offerings as a Possible Religious Response to Extreme Marine Events in the Gulf of Cadiz.
A1 Álvarez-Martí-Aguilar, Manuel
K1 Arqueología submarina -  Cádiz (Golfo)
K1 Maremotos - Cádiz (Golfo) - Edad Antigua
K1 Cádiz (Golfo) - Restos arqueológicos fenicios
AB This article reviews the possible cause for the underwater deposition of a series of Phoenician bronze figurines dated between the eighth and seventh centuries BC and discovered on the southwestern coast of the Iberian Peninsula, around the Islet of Sancti Petri (Cadiz) and on the coast near the city of Huelva. Th ese figurines have been interpreted as votive offerings thrown into the waters near the ports of Cadiz and Huelva by Phoenician seafarers and merchants at the end of their voyages as an expression of gratitude to the god Melqart. Instead, I propose that these objects may have been thrown into the waters as part of religious rituals, intended to appease the waters of the ocean following the occurrence of catastrophic marine floods such as those that apparently affected the seaboard of the Gulf of Cadiz in themiddle of the first millennium BC.
PB Penn State University Press
YR 2023
FD 2023-09-01
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/27971
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/27971
LA eng
NO Álvarez-Martí-Aguilar, M. (2023): "Battles Beneath the Sea: Phoenician Votive Offerings as a Possible Religious Response to Extreme Marine Events in the Gulf of Cadiz", Journal of Eastern Mediterranean Archaeology and Heritage Studies 11 (2–3): 323-336.
NO Proyecto de Investigación TSUNIBER – Terremotos y tsunamis en la península ibérica en época antigua: respuestas sociales en la larga duración (PGC2018-093752-B-I00; MCI/AEI/FEDER, UE).Grupo de Estudios Historiográficos (HUM-394) del PAIDI.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 21 ene 2026