Una brocchetta eburnea dalla necropoli di Douïmès: artigianato fenicio tra Nimrud e Cartagine

The review of an old discovery made by A.L. Delattre in the necropolis of Carthage (during 1896 excavations) offers the opportunity to reflect on a particular eburnean production (also documented in Nimrud in the Near East and Samos in Greece) that was inspired by a Red-Slip jug characteristic of the chronological horizons of the 9th century BC Phoenicia, Levantine coast and Cyprus. This jug is inspired by metallic prototypes that were supposed to be luxury goods and objects of commerce, as in the case of (rare) ivory reproductions. The Carthaginian artefact could be an object of oriental production hoarded or acquired later in the West as an item of commercial exchange.