En el Museo de Menorca existe un lote de materiales arqueológicos, cuya procedencia de hallazgo se sitúa en Ibiza. No se trata, ni mucho menos, de un caso aislado porque ello mismo sucede, incluso a mayor escala, en otros extrainsulares como son el Arqueológico Nacional de Madrid y el Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya.
De los dos primeros que, dicho sea de paso, albergan un número considerable de objetos de origen ibicenco, se han publicado diversos estudios, que abarcan distintas categorías de objetos (Vives 1917, Rodero 1980, Boardman 1984; Fernández et al. 2009, entre otros), igual que se ha hecho en otros museos menores, como el Episcopal de Vic (San Nicolás 1985) e, incluso, de importantes colecciones en su día privadas (Vento 1984). Por todo ello, y a pesar de que la descontextualización de los materiales es una tónica común, la publicación de las piezas conservadas en Menorca es una asignatura pendiente. Este es, pues, el objeto del presente trabajo.
The present work deals with an unpublished batch of Punic materials, mainly vascular, but also terracotta and metallic elements, from Ibiza, which are preserved in the Museum of Menorca. A part of them comes from a private donation made in 1953 by Josep Colomines Roca, who obtained them, no doubt by purchase or exchange, on the Pitiusa island. On the other hand, the circumstances in which its entry into the aforementioned museum took place are unknown. Despite being a decontextualized material, its publication is important for several reasons, among which is the presence of exceptional pieces and others that can rarely be studied in an integral state. It has not been just a descriptive work, but the occasion has been taken advantage of, through the use of modern archaeological data, many of which are unpublished to date, to update the state of the matter in a whole series of ways Vascular All this, naturally results in a better knowledge of the Punic-Ebusitan era and its commercial relations with the outside.
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