La Fonteta Phoenician Port
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La Fonteta is an ancient Phoenician port city that was located in what is now the town of Guardamar del Segura, Alicante, Spain.
La Fonteta was a
Segura River that existed from the 8th century to the 6th century BC; excavations have exposed remains of a settlement whose dimensions suggest an urban area of perhaps eight hectares, making it one of the largest and best preserved Phoenician cities in the western Mediterranean. From its founding, the port city of La Fonteta had access to an environment that included a sanctuary located at Guardamar, which likely attracted a cult of Astarte, protector goddess of sailors, at a point of land on the coast crucial to marine navigation. The archaeological record, with preservation favored by the sand dunes at Guardamar del Segura that buried the city, indicates that La Fonteta was one of the most important Phoenician cities of the 7th and 8th centuries BC.[1]
Bronze, ivory, and glass objects found in strata dating to the
Ora Maritima, a flourishing mercantile center where several trade routes converged.[1]
Archaeological work on a section of wall has revealed 60 m (200 ft) of defensive fortifications. The wall, built from medium-sized stones of soft sandstone and
Greek pottery, and ritual objects such as decorated ostrich eggs, ivory,[1] and scarabs, etc., appear as well.[2]
References
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A estos hallazgos se añade este nuevo ejemplar aparecido en La Fonteta durante la campaña de 2018-2019. El escarabeo es un talismán mágico originario de Egipto, usado desde el Imperio Antiguo, que tuvo gran difusión por todo el Mediterráneo durante el Periodo Orientalizante gracias a los fenicios." English: "To these findings a new specimen found in La Fonteta was added during the 2018-2019 campaign. The scarab is a magical talisman originally from Egypt, used during the time of the ancient Egyptian empire, which was diffused widely throughout the Mediterranean during the orientalizing period thanks to the Phoenicians.
