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AUTHOR
Mireia López-bertrán
Materializing music and sound in some phoenician and punic contexts
Music and sound would have been essential aspects of everyday life in Phoenician and Punic times. However they have been largelyneglected in the specialist literature, which has traditionally paid more attention to visual features of material culture and has ignored theother senses such as hearing. We begin this article by contextualizing our uses of specifi c terms such as music, sound, instruments andembodiment. We then describe the geographical and chronological framework of the materials selected, and fi nally we analyse theevidence of musical and sound production in the material record.
Las terracotas de instrumentistas de la Ibiza punica. Consideraciones organológicas y apuntes para su interpretación
We analyze the group of musician terracottas from Ibiza keeping in mind two perspectives. Firstly, we display some organological considerations. To this respect we present current debates and proposals on which are the most suitable names to refer to the musical instruments represented. Secondly, we contextualise from a local point of view the clay figurines considering the musical and corporeal politics. Thus, we analyse which aspects turn terracottas into useful materials to elucidate identity, corporeality and social condition of the female musicians in Punic Ibiza.
Exploring past ontologies: bodies, jugs and figurines from the Phoenician-Punic Mediterranean Exploring past ontologies: bodies, jugs and figurines from the Phoenician-Punic Mediterranean
This paper focuses on ideas of body construction in the Phoenician-Punic western Mediterranean. I concentrate on the study of 'bottle-shaped' terracottas and examine their connections with anthropomorphized and zoomorphic jugs and the bottle-shaped idol, a symbol engraved on the stelae of tophets. Exploring the Phoenician-Punic isomorphism between jugs, figurines and bodies introduces us to the study of the creation of a specific body world in terms of fluids: a world in which bodies were perceived as containers of liquids. I argue that this way of defining bodies is materialized in the figurines in two ways: first, via the transformation of the body into a bottle-shaped form, and second, v…