Two Spanish-Phoenician thimiateria in the Museum of Albacete
Abstract
This paper presents two new bronze thymiateria which, in a very fragmentary state, are preserved in the Albacete Museum. They came from a police operation carried out over ten years ago. Their provenance, almost not sure, must be said from the province of Albacete. The first specimen can be identified as a “Cypriot” bronze stand made in a western Phoenician workshop. The second one belongs to a trumpet-shaped base with lion claws, a type which is common into the western Phoenician bronzework too. These two new finds help to increase the repertory of these objects as well their map of distribution on Iberian peninsula and they contribute to better understand the presence of some later Archaic bronzeworking evidences in the same region, as the famous incense burner from La Quéjola (San Pedro, Albacete).
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