Abstract

The appearance of several fragments of an Attic amphora of SOS type in the excavation (1998-2002) of the former main Post Office in Malaga (currently University Rectory Building) is decisive for the dating of the Phoenician wall structure that was detected in this place. For its typology, this Greek piece can be included in the Attic II class of R. Docter. The chronology is dated in the second half of the 7th century BC, within the classification of these vessels. In this sense, the context of Phoenician materials appeared with this piece is fixed very well on this chronological horizon. The presence of this container in Malaga, at a time slightly before the emergence of the East-Greek trade in the coastal Andalusia, raises the issue of the early incorporation of this new city to the distributor net of Greek products in the West, until this moment very centralized at the site of Toscanos

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