IBEROS

Name: Graphite in Eastern Iberian script on a ceramic fragment from a Campanian pottery pottery

Description: The ceramic piece is a bell-shaped patera B. With a straight, slightly recessed rim, its body is in the shape of a vertical ellipsoid cap. The piece is decorated with incised graffiti in Iberian script, which reads: Ku.l.es ti.l.e.e.i.s

Chronology: Recent Iberian (late 2nd-1st c. BC)

Location: Tossal de la Cala, Benidorm

Material: Ceramics

Technique: Lathe modelling

Dimensions: Height, 24mm; rim diameter, 215-220mm.

Name: Kalathos with painted decoration from the Tossal de la Cala.

Description: This is a ceramic piece characteristic of Iberian culture, the Kalathos. It is notable for its cylindrical body, concave base and thickened rim towards the outside. It is a container vessel. It has painted decoration in the symbolic or Elche-Archena style consisting of a bird with outstretched wings accompanied by plant decoration (ivy leaves, flowers), straight stripes surrounding the piece and 'S'-shaped lines.

Chronology: Recent Iberian (end of the 2nd-1st century BC.)

Location: Tossal de la Cala, Benidorm

Material: Ceramics

Technique: Lathe modelling

Dimensions:Height, 18.5cm; base diameter, 13cm; rim diameter, 21.5cm; .

Name: Terracotta bust of the goddess Tanit from the necropolis of La Albufereta

Description: This is a bust of a female deity wearing a kalathos. It is made of terracotta and is similar to the Phoenician goddess Tanit. The body is slightly sketched and has two holes for the insertion of the arms.

Chronology: Iberian, first quarter of the 4th century BC.

Location: Necropolis of l'Albufereta, Alicante.

Material: Terracotta

Technique: Carving

Dimensions: Height, 40cm; width of base, 37cm; width of top, 9cm.

Name: Saitabi Unit

Description: Bronze coin minted in the city of Saitabi in the second half of the 2nd century BC. Value: Unity. The obverse depicts a diademed male head facing right, wearing a mantle and ring fibula. Behind him is a palm branch. It is outlined by a dotted graphyl.

The reverse shows a lancer horseman looking to the right. Below him, and above a line, the legend SAITI in Iberian script.

Chronology: Iberian, second half of the 2nd century BC.

Location: Tossal de la Cala, Benidorm

Material: Bronze

Technique: Hammer minting

Dimensions: Maximum diameter, 26mm. Weight, 13.22g.