King Solomon’s Silver? Southern Phoenician Hacksilber Hoards and the Location of Tarshish
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 12590646 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Christine Marmé Thompson (0000-0001-5162-3767, autor de correspondencia), Christine Thompson, Sheldon Skaggs |
| Año | 2013 |
| Número | 35 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2013-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Internet Archaeology (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1363-5387 • E-ISSN: 1363-5387 |
| Editorial | Council for British Archaeology (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.11141/ia.35.6 |
| OpenAlex | W2326816350 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 15 |
Evidence from silver hoards found in Phoenicia is linking Tarshish, the legendary source of King Solomon's silver, to ores in the western Mediterranean. Biblical passages sometimes describe this lost land as a supplier of metals (especially silver) to Phoenician sailors who traded in the service of Solomon and Hiram of Tyre in the 10th century BC. Classical authors similarly attribute the mercantile supremacy of the Phoenicians to their command of lucrative supplies of silver in the west, before they colonised the coasts and islands of its metalliferous regions around 800 BC. Conservative rejections of such reports have correctly emphasised a lack of evidence from silver. Lead isotope analyses of silver hoards found in Phoenicia now provide the initial evidence for pre-colonial silver-trade with the west; ore-provenance data correlate with the ancient documents that indicate both Sardinia and Spain as suppliers, and Sardinia as the island of Tarshish
Ancient history · Archaeology · Phoenician · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Ancient Near East History · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History
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