Phénicienne City Fonteta

La' City Phénicienne Fonteta' in the communal territory of Guardamar del Segura (Alicante, Spain), would be a phenician installation with the mouth of the river Segura, dating from the period of VIIIe to the Life front century J. - C. The extent of what seems an urban environment is approximately eight hectares, which would do of them one of the phenicians main cities of the the Mediterranean.

The city can be regarded as old Alônis or Alon, quoted in the Geography of Pomponius Mela. Some Greek geographers named/>Traditionnellement Alônis a split preceded by a îlot. There is no small island at the entry of the creek of Port of Alon. This island was Tabarca, and the circus was really the Bay Santa Pola.

the name of Alônis does not mean anything in old particular in Greek. On the other hand, this name can have a direction as a phenician, as Plaute testifies some: In its part entitled Pœnulus (i.e. " Small Carthaginois" ), comic the Latin Plaute puts in scene an unhappy Carthaginian mislaid in Rome. This one is expressed in a Sabir mixing Latin Phénicien and . It evokes the alonim and the alonoth , in other words the gods and the goddesses. " Alon" " would thus mean; dieu".

There are metallurgical ruins of workshops with Fonteta which explain many questions of the beginning of the iron and steel industry in the protohistoire of the Western Mediterranean. In more one found a vast ceramics phenicians repertory typological: Amphoras; Varnished plates, red, Ceramic Greek old, and of ritual objects like eggs of Ostrich, Ivory, etc the appearance of architectonic elements re-used in the wall proves the existence of a Temple.

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