The Prestige-Goods Model Applied to the Iberian Southeast during the Early Iron Age: the Phoenician Scarab from Castellar de Librilla

171-199 ISSN: 1133-4525 ISSN-e: 2255-3924 SPAL 31.1 (2022) https://editorial.us.es/es/revistas/spal • https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/spal.2022.i31.07 © Editorial Universidad de Sevilla 2022 • CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Cutillas-Victoria, B., Boschloos, V. y Baños Serrano, J. (2022): “The prestige-goods model applied to the Iberian Southeast during the Early Iron Age: the Phoenician scarab from Castellar de Librilla”, Spal, 31.1, pp. 171-199. https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/spal.2022.i31.07 The prestige-goods model applied to the Iberian Southeast during the Early Iron Age: the Phoenician scarab from Castellar de Librilla EL MODELO DE BIENES DE PRESTIGIO APLICADO AL SURESTE IBÉRICO DURANTE EL HIERRO ANTIGUO: EL ESCARABEO FENICIO DEL CASTELLAR DE LIBRILLA Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria Grupo de Investigación en Arqueología (E041-02). Universidad de Murcia. C/ Santo Cristo, nº. 1, 30001 (Murcia, Spain).Centre of Excellence in Ancient Near Eastern Empires (ANEE). University of Helsinki. Fabianinkatu 24, 00014 (Helsinki, Finland) [email protected] 0000-0002-6358-4176 ABF-7258-2020 (Responsable de correspondencia) Vanessa Boschloos Department of Archaeology, Ghent University. Campus Ufo, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 35. B-9000 Ghent - Belgium. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Egyptian Art. 1000 Fifth Avenue, 10028 New York, NY vanes[email protected] 0000-0003-4654-3134 ABB-2169-2020 José Baños Serrano Museo Arqueológico de Los Baños. Plaza Vieja, nº. 1, 30840 (Alhama de Murcia, Spain) [email protected] 0000-0002-6004-1619 AAH-4801-2021 Abstract: The establishment of Phoenician colonies in the Iberian Southeast from the 8th century BC led to a significant increase in productive and commercial activities with the autochthonous communities. However, prestige goods of high value destined for reduced consumption groups also circulated within these networks. The presence of a scarab found during an archaeological survey in the settlement of Castellar de Librilla (Librilla, Región de Murcia) reveals the inclusion of certain autochthonous elites in these circuits. This paper discusses the context, typological classification and comparative analysis of the scarab to better determine its origin and chronological framework. The incorporation of new archaeometric data through scanning electron microscopy (SEM), focused on the gold bezel setting in which the scarab is set, has been essential to improving our understanding of this piece of personal adornment. The results of the iconographic and microanalytic study point to the exceptional value of this artefact, which make it possible to recognise the participation and agency of the autochthonous elites of Castellar de Librilla in the commercial systems of Mediterranean prestige goods. Keywords: Iberian Peninsula, Early Iron Age, cultural interaction, trade networks, iconography, scanning electron microscopy. Resumen: El establecimiento de las colonias fenicias en el Sureste ibérico a partir del sigloVIIIa.C. provocó un auge importante de las actividades productivas y comerciales con las comunidades autóctonas. No obstante, en este entramado comercial también se dio un tráfico de elementos de prestigio de elevado valor que se encontraban destinados a círculos de consumo muy reducidos. El hallazgo en prospección de un escarabeo en el asentamiento del Castellar de Librilla (Librilla, Región de Murcia) pone de manifiesto la inclusión de determinadas élites autóctonas en estos circuitos. Este trabajo aborda su contextualización, clasificación tipológica y análisis comparativo con la finalidad de determinar la procedencia del escarabeo y su marco cronológico. La incorporación de nuevos datos arqueométricos a través de microscopía electrónica de barrido (SEM), especialmente centrados en las partes de oro, ha sido esencial para mejorar la aproximación sobre este adorno y artefacto de ornamentación personal. Los resultados del estudio iconográfico y microanalítico apuntan al valor excepcional de esta pieza, lo que permite reconocer la participación y capacidad de agencia de las élites autóctonas del Castellar de Librilla en los sistemas comerciales de bienes de prestigio mediterráneos. Palabras clave: península ibérica, Hierro Antiguo, interacción cultural, comercio, iconografía, microscopía electrónica de barrido. FECHA RECEPCIÓN 06/03/2021 FECHA ACEPTACIÓN 10/12/2021 172 171-199 ISSN: 1133-4525 ISSN-e: 2255-3924 SPAL 31.1 (2022) The prestige-goods model applied to the Iberian Southeast during the Early Iron Age: the Phoenician scarab from Castellar de Librilla Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria et al. https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/spal.2022.i31.07 1. INTRODUCTION The presence of foreign elements of adornment or personal use in the autochthonous settlements of the Iberian Peninsula has become one of the most complex and thoroughly examined issues of the transition period from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age. It seems that these artefacts of exceptional value introduced by the Phoenicians during the pre-colonial horizon were aimed at facilitating encounters and establishing relationships with local elites controlling the natural resources. At the same time, the autochthonous leaders increase their power within the local communities (Aubet, 1994), and these material symbols would have justified their social pre-eminence and their ability to control surpluses (Barceló, 1995; Vives-Ferrándiz, 2008). However, discussion emerged when scholars sought to analyse these exchanges in a broader framework, especially at the level of the socio-economic structuring of local societies, resulting in two opposing viewpoints. On the one hand, scholars have suggested that such goods linked to the notion of prestige acted as a mechanism through which Phoenicians implanted complex social and economic structures among local upper classes in imitation of their own models (Wagner and Alvar, 1989; Aubet, 2005). On the other hand, prestige goods may merely have facilitated contacts with autochthonous societies that were already in the process of transformation and growth, with their own infrastructures and social structures (Ruiz-Gálvez, 1998; González Prats, 2005). The continuity of the trade in prestige goods beyond the initial phase of Phoenician colonisation contributes to this debate. This then raises the question of whether the goods were offered by the colonial environments to maintain good relations with the autochthonous settlements, or, on the contrary, whether they responded to demands by the local elites directing and structuring the Early Iron Age settlements and territories. The discovery of a red chalcedonic quartz scarab set in gold with clearly Eastern Mediterranean iconographic motifs in a midden at the settlement of Castellar de Librilla is framed in this context (fig.1). The aim of this paper is precisely to examine this object of standing and its immediate context as well as the socio-economic and commercial dynamics that made its arrival possible. However, the analysis was undertaken from the perspective of the autochthonous communities, making it possible to evaluate the important role of and developments in the autochthonous societies during this period. Thus, the paper challenges the traditional prestige goods theoretic model, which treats power relations as static and unidirectional rather than continuously renegotiated and bidirectional (Vives-Ferrándiz, 2008; Delgado Hervás, 2013). 2. PRESTIGE GOODS IN THE IBERIAN SOUTHEAST FROM THE 8TH CENTURY BC Prestige goods in Iberia are not a novelty that only emerged during the last period of the Late Bronze Age. The Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age, however, did constitute an exceptional period for the study of the dynamics that converged around these items because the chronological phases suggest the meeting, coexistence, adoption and adaptation of clearly differentiated cultural elements and languages. In this sense, prestige goods and manufactured objects played an essential part in the transmission processes between Phoenicians and the indigenous population. Nevertheless, it is important to note that the true value of foreign objects is not restricted to just their tangible characteristics and materiality; it encompasses supply and demand and the social meaning behind the object as well (Krueger, 2008). 173 171-199 ISSN: 1133-4525 ISSN-e: 2255-3924 SPAL 31.1 (2022) The prestige-goods model applied to the Iberian Southeast during the Early Iron Age: the Phoenician scarab from Castellar de Librilla Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria et al. https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/spal.2022.i31.07 Figure1. Location of the settlement of Castellar de Librilla, with indication of some of the main prestige goods identified in the Iberian Southeast (Design: authors. Images: Los Royos -Museo Arqueológico Nacional / Fabián Álvarez Martínez©-; Bajo de la Campana -Museo Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática ARQVA / Bruce Mitchell White©-; La Condomina -Museo de Villena©-; Bay of Mazarrón -José Lajara©-; Castillico del Sabinar -Walker, 1988, p.102, fig.2.b-; Baria -Alberto Lorrio Alvarado©-; Fonteta - Museo Arqueológico de Guardamar©-; Les Casetes -José Ramón García Gandía©-; Peña Negra -Museo Arqueológico de Alicante©-. Digital Terrain Model: Spanish National Geographic Institute). Before continuing, it is essential to consider what scholars mean by the term prestige object and its connotations with respect to the interpretive discourse used to interpret the archaeological record. The notion of prestige and its application in prehistory raises difficulties at a theoretical and methodological level, as it is a problematic and non-static term. Following Pedraza (2017), the use of this category has been related to the symbolic value assigned to certain items that accentuate their objective value, itself determined by the investment of working time during the production processes. However, a series of precepts must also be fulfilled before the artefact can be considered a prestige good, such as the rarity of the materials used, the complexity of the manufacturing process or its place of origin (Pedraza, 2017, p.16). It is precisely this intangible and mutable value that highlights the fact we are faced with a series of social productions symbolising a specific ideology and, in the hands of the elites, serving as a legitimising element of social power (Krueger, 2008, p.9). These last attributions may explain the importance of prestige goods among the communities of Iron Age Europe, causing scholars to propose the existence of a demand for and a specific trade developed around such products. The identification 174 171-199 ISSN: 1133-4525 ISSN-e: 2255-3924 SPAL 31.1 (2022) The prestige-goods model applied to the Iberian Southeast during the Early Iron Age: the Phoenician scarab from Castellar de Librilla Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria et al. https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/spal.2022.i31.07 of certain processes led Frankenstein and Rowlands (1978) to define a theoretical position focused on the existence of an economy of prestige goods based on prior anthropological studies and Wallerstein’s conception of world systems (1974). They suggest that, through the prestige goods obtained via exogenous commercial relationships, the upper classes could achieve a dominant position by reinforcing their hierarchy and status (Frankenstein, 1997). However, the prestige-goods economy model has not been exempted from criticism. Other scholars have pointed out that, in some cases, these types of goods have been studied as exceptional objects and rarely related to other relevant aspects of the archaeological record that help identify possible changes in local communities or their role in shaping local politics (Sanmartí, 2009, p.50). Likewise, critical views have questioned related perspectives defined as top-down models, which assign a greater role to elites and foreign merchants in the processes of social and economic change during the period, relegating ordinary people to a passive role (Delgado Hervás, 2018, p.144). These last positions are the ones that we consider most constructive when undertaking a reading of the social and cultural dynamics that occurred around prestige goods in the Iberian Southeast during the first half of the first millennium BC. Finds such as the Castellar de Librilla scarab should be understood as a social product, contextualising both their meaning within the local communities that adopted them as items associated with their own social orders and recognising the commercial connections and economic and social relationships that allowed for their arrival (Vives-Ferrándiz, 2005, p.74). This requires not only an exhaustive knowledge of the characteristics of each item, its origin, iconography, meaning and composition, but also interpreting them within these changing scenarios. Autochthonous communities exercised an agency in the processes for selective incorporation that conditioned the configuration of the hybrid identities that occurred during the period. In the Iberian Southeast, different prestige goods have been found along the coast and in the inland regions, and in various formats and manifestations. Without attempting to exhaustively list them, some stand out: alabaster vases, such as at Baria and Fonteta (López Castro, 2001-2002; González Prats, 2014a); faience objects like the water bottle from Les Casetes (García Gandía, 2009); ostrich eggs, combs, appliques and plates of ivory and bone, such as those documented at Fonteta (González Prats, 2014b); ceramic assemblages from the Central and Eastern Mediterranean, whether related or not to the consumption of wine (Rouillard etal., 2007; González Prats, 2014a; González Prats, 2014b); bronze elements of exceptional quality, such as the thymiaterion or the bronze hand identified among the cargo from Bajo de la Campana (Polzer, 2014; Pinedo Reyes, 2018); or the sculptures from El Macalón (fig.2, b) (Chapa etal., 2019). Despite the nature of these elements, scholars should apply the label of prestige good with caution. For the present case, the value of, for example, Greek ceramics, ostrich eggs or alabaster vessels among the Phoenician communities seems evident. However, such objects have not been found in great numbers in local communities in the Southeast. With the exception of the alabaster vase from tomb 5 at the Collado and Pinar de Santa Ana necropolis (Hernández Carrión and Gil González, 2001-2002) (fig.2, a), no other alabaster elements have been detected among the pre-coastal or inland communities; this is also the case for ostrich eggs, only identified in the necropolis of Les Casetes (García Gandía, 2009; Ruiz etal., 2020). With respect to ceramics, this absence is in relation to Greek imports, posited as a facilitator of links with autochthonous aristocracies and yet practically absent from autochthonous repertoires (Vives-Ferrándiz, 2005, p.163). 175 171-199 ISSN: 1133-4525 ISSN-e: 2255-3924 SPAL 31.1 (2022) The prestige-goods model applied to the Iberian Southeast during the Early Iron Age: the Phoenician scarab from Castellar de Librilla Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria et al. https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/spal.2022.i31.07 Figure2. Different manifestations of prestige goods from the Iberian Southeast: A) detail of the alabaster vase found in the necropolis at Collado y Pinar de Santa de Jumilla -Museum ‘Jerónimo de Molina’ of Jumilla©-; B) sculpture from El Macalón -authors©-; C) Centauro de Los Royos bronze sculpture -Museo Arqueológico Nacional / Fabián Álvarez Martínez©-; D) silver ring with a steatite scarab, Bay of Mazarrón - Museo Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática ARQVA / Bruce Mitchell White ©-). These observations are essential for understanding the agency of local communities and the study of prestige goods for personal use. In this sense, some objects do appear in certain autochthonous settlements without alterations, which implies the transmission and adoption of such objects and perhaps the cultural transfer of their related practices, too. This is the case with bronze objects, such as the belt clasps from El Bolón (Poveda, 1994-1995), Fonteta (González Prats, 2014a) and Peña Negra (Graells and Lorrio Alvarado, 2017) and the buckle from Castillico del Sabinar (Walker, 1988); with various gold objects, such as the possible diadem identified among the treasure found at Peña Negra (González Prats, 1978) or the arracada de Villena (Soler, 1990); with bracelets or pendants containing glass paste beads, such as those identified in Peña Negra and Les Moreres (González Prats, 1983; González Prats, 2002); or, with objects having high symbolic value due to their function, morphology and content, such as scarab-shaped seals. Initially dismissed as mere trinkets accompanying trade commodities because of their wide distribution throughout the Mediterranean region, scarabs are now fully recognised by scholars for their magical value: it has been argued that enough evidence exists to indicate that the magical beliefs expressed by and inscribed on Egyptian and Egyptianizing amulets were basically understood in the West at the time (Padró, 1995, pp.191-192, 195-201; Schweizer, 2014). 176 171-199 ISSN: 1133-4525 ISSN-e: 2255-3924 SPAL 31.1 (2022) The prestige-goods model applied to the Iberian Southeast during the Early Iron Age: the Phoenician scarab from Castellar de Librilla Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria et al. https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/spal.2022.i31.07 So far, the scarabs identified in the Iberian Southeast have been found in colonial settings and in the main local settlement of Peña Negra. The first category includes two ‘blue paste’ scarabs, two white faience scarabs and one cornelian scarab in a silver mount from Fonteta (Escolano Poveda, 2010), a silver ring (fig. 2, d) with a steatite scarab from the Bay of Mazarrón (Azuar and Pérez, 2008, pp.118-119) and a faience scarab in a gold mount from Baria (Almagro-Gorbea and Lorrio Alvarado, 2015). Peña Negra has yielded six scarabs in white faience in the so-called treasure from Sector 4N, together with a hawk-shaped amulet and other items, such as the aforementioned diadem, silver chain necklaces, glass paste beads, an iron knife and bronze tweezers (González Prats, 1978; Padró, 1996; Escolano Poveda, 2010). To these can be added a later hellenising green jasper scarab in a metal bezel from the necropolis of El Molar (Padró, 1983, pp.122- 127). When adopting a macroscale approach, this distribution could reflect the existence of a differential order between Phoenicians and local aristocracies. However, the finding of a scarab in a gold mount at Castellar de Librilla requires a precise characterisation of this item, placing it in its proper sociocultural context and linking it to a general review of such prestigious goods from the central sector of the Iberian Southeast during the Early Iron Age. 3. THE SETTLEMENT OF CASTELLAR DE LIBRILLA Within the dynamics of territorial and urban restructuring that took place in the Iberian Southeast during the Late Bronze Age (Molina González, 1978; Jover etal., 2016), the creation of new main settlements stands out. Since the 9th century BC, sites such as Peña Negra in Crevillente (González Prats, 1983; Lorrio Alvarado etal., 2016), Santa Ana in Jumilla (Ros Sala, 1990; Hernández Carrión and Gil González, 2001-2002) and Santa Catalina del Monte in Murcia (Ros Sala, 1986-1987), reorganised their local productive and economic systems to amplify the capacities and possibilities of the region in the years preceding the Phoenician colonisation. In this context of intensifying contacts and exchanges with the Atlantic, Central Mediterranean and peninsular trade networks, Castellar de Librilla appeared in the pre-coastal basin of the Guadalentín-Segura rivers and at the entry to the Rambla de Las Moreras. Both traditional and new archaeological data (Ros Sala, 1989; Cutillas and Ros Sala, 2020) reveal an initially dispersed occupation pattern around the natural spring of Castellar, which preceded the subsequent phase of urban expansion and demographic increase after the consolidation of the Phoenician-western colonies in the region (Rouillard etal., 2007; González Prats, 2011; García Menárguez and Prados, 2014; Ros Sala Sellés, 2017). This dynamic of development continued until the 7th century BC, the period when the settlement achieved its maximum point of growth. The site plan (fig.3) reveals that the main part of the settlement was located on the east side, and several urban areas, fortifications and productive workshops have been identified along a chronology that extends up until the 4th century BC. On the opposite side of the Rambla de Algeciras, the synchronous occupation was concentrated at Cabezo de la Fuente del Murtal, although this elevated area is better known for the fortified structures located on top of it (García Blánquez, 1996; Lomba and Cano, 2002). The appearance of fortresses and walled structures in the Iberian Southeast between the end of the 7th century and the 6th century BC reveals constant territorial tensions between the settlements. This situation affected both the autochthonous (Lorrio 177 171-199 ISSN: 1133-4525 ISSN-e: 2255-3924 SPAL 31.1 (2022) The prestige-goods model applied to the Iberian Southeast during the Early Iron Age: the Phoenician scarab from Castellar de Librilla Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria et al. https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/spal.2022.i31.07 Alvarado etal., 2016; Sala Sellés etal., 2020) and western Phoenicians settlements (Rouillard etal., 2007, p.126; González Prats, 2011, p.23) and, probably, such conditions worsened after 550 BC, when an important shift in the overall dynamics occurred in the region. From this date onwards, trade systems declined in the Iberian Southeast, resulting in the progressive abandonment of the autochthonous and colonial environments, such as Fonteta (Rouillard etal., 2007), Peña Negra (Lorrio Alvarado etal., 2016; Almagro-Gorbea etal., 2021), and Almadenes (Sala Sellés etal., 2020); or in the weakening and contraction of others, like Bahía de Mazarrón (Ros Sala and Cutillas, 2020) and Santa Catalina del Monte (Ros Sala, 1986-1987). In the case of Castellar de Librilla, the main consequence of this phenomenon was the abandonment of the more elevated sectors on the summits and, shortly thereafter, of the fortress of Cabezo de la Fuente del Murtal. However, during the course of the second half of the 6th and beginning of the 5th century BC the lower sectors next to the stream, the intermediate heights and the artisanal neighbourhood continued to be inhabited. A process of urban remodelling began, which included the construction of a new defensive system. Nevertheless, the settlement was not restricted exclusively to this side of the Rambla de Algeciras; also ascribed to the late 6th and 5th centuries are the Iberian tower and part of the structures detected in the NE sector of Cabezo de la Fuente del Murtal, the excavation of which began in 2018. This new phase of the site reveals the recuperation and continuity of a settlement that maintained its power and control over its immediate territory in a clear demonstration of the resilience exercised by one local community. Figure 3. Protohistoric settlement of Castellar de Librilla: A) settled areas of Castellar de Librilla and Cabezo de la Fuente del Murtal (MDT: Spanish National Geographic Institute); B) photographs of Early Iron Age structures from Sector 13 -authors®-; C) aerial view of Cabezo de la Fuente del Murtal fortress (Alhama de Murcia Town Hall®). 178 171-199 ISSN: 1133-4525 ISSN-e: 2255-3924 SPAL 31.1 (2022) The prestige-goods model applied to the Iberian Southeast during the Early Iron Age: the Phoenician scarab from Castellar de Librilla Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria et al. https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/spal.2022.i31.07 3.1. Sector CLI-13 and the midden Of the three flat-topped peaks that form the upper part of Sierra del Castellar, the highest corresponds to the area defined as Sector 13 (Cutillas and Ros Sala, 2020). With a difference of more than 150 metres in relative height with respect to the natural water spring, the identification of numerous walled sections shows the effort put into urban development in this part of the settlement. The main characteristic of the occupation of these sectors is the visible control of the middle basin of the Segura river and the Guadalentín valley, becoming a geostrategic space of territorial and probably political significance. Nevertheless, the identification of new structures and abundant archaeological material in the lower terraces suggests that the upper part of the site would not only have consisted of fortified enclosures, but that the terracing of the slopes also allowed for additional building activities. Regarding the chronological context of the upper part of the settlement, the materials identified thus far point to it being occupied throughout the 7th century and the first half of the 6th century BC, synchronous with Castellar phases III and IVa (Ros Sala, 1989; Cutillas and Ros Sala, 2020). This urban planning suggests an image of dense settlement, where Sector 13 would be defined as a singularised and strongly fortified space. The prolonged use of this area is also confirmed by the identification of an important midden -sectioned in profile during the mechanical terracing work carried out in Sierra del Castellar in the 1970s- the dimensions of which reach at least seven metres in length and one metre in depth (fig.4, b). However, the erosive processes that made it possible to locate this exceptional number of structures and objects (Cutillas and Ros Sala, 2020) also pose the main risk to the conservation of this site and its archaeological record. For this reason, it was decided to continue fieldwork with a new survey project to monitor the state of preservation of the structures and the possible geomorphological transformation of the area. Precisely during one of the archaeological monitoring operations, a small drop in the height of the surrounding soil and material was encountered in the central part of the midden. The documentation of new remains has helped complete the ceramic assemblage unearthed in this same area in 2019 (fig.5), especially in the case of wheel-made and grey ceramic plates, although a plate painted in red was also found. More exceptional, however, are the individuals CLI’20-255-1.1 and CLI’20-255-4.1. The first has been recognised as a biconic support in grey ceramic destined for tableware as an auxiliary vessel; it has parallels in the industrial sector of Castellar de Librilla, chronologically dating back to Phase IVa (Ros Sala, 1989, p.356) as well as Fonteta III, with a specific chronology of between 670 and 635 BC (González Prats, 2014a, pp.429-430). The second individual is more problematic. Its profile may resemble a jug with a single handle connected to the same edge -or dipper jugletswhile its dimensions are larger than the examples documented in other contexts, such as at Teatro Cómico in Gadir (Torres Ortiz etal., 2014, p.70), Cerro del Villar (Aubet etal., 1999, pp.171-172) and Fonteta (González Prats, 2011, p.420). At any rate, its probable provenance is the area around Málaga based on its macroscopic characterisation; its untreated finishing has led to the tentative suggestion that it served as a jug to transport certain select liquids in small quantities. Finally, the most surprising piece from this context and proposed chronological period was a scarab that stands out for its exceptional state of preservation and its material value. Its stratigraphical position and its morphology and iconography justify the detailed study of this find. 179 171-199 ISSN: 1133-4525 ISSN-e: 2255-3924 SPAL 31.1 (2022) The prestige-goods model applied to the Iberian Southeast during the Early Iron Age: the Phoenician scarab from Castellar de Librilla Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria et al. https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/spal.2022.i31.07 Figure4. A) North slope of Sector 13 at Castellar de Librilla, with built structures (in red) and the midden (in yellow); B) detailed photogrammetry of the midden and marker, indicating the position of the scarab. Figure 5. Archaeological assemblage identified in the area of the midden of Sector 13 at Castellar de Librilla during the field survey done in 2019 and 2020. 186 171-199 ISSN: 1133-4525 ISSN-e: 2255-3924 SPAL 31.1 (2022) The prestige-goods model applied to the Iberian Southeast during the Early Iron Age: the Phoenician scarab from Castellar de Librilla Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria et al. https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/spal.2022.i31.07 The lion in a recumbent position at the top of the design is also very popular on 25th and 26th dynasty scarabs, without divider line (e.g. on the Pancorvo scarab: Mancebo and Ferrer, 1992, p.315), but also on the Petrie scarab (1896, pl. XXIV nr. 62; Griffith, 1923, pl. XXI nr. 20; Buchner and Ridgway, 1993, fig.1 nr. 243-16) or, on 26th dynasty scarabs, on a double field divider (e.g. Petrie 1886, pl. XXXVII nr. 131; Vercoutter, 1945, nrs. 247, 452; Forgeau, 1986, nr. 11; Jaeger, 1993, nr. 1; Keel, 1997: Akhzib, 130). The recumbent lion or hybrid creature in the upper register is, however, not limited to the Egyptian glyptic repertoire; it has been discovered in several instances on Phoenician, Hebrew and Aramaic seals as well (fig.8a; Avigad and Sass, 1997, nrs. 740, 1151, 1171, 1174) in register layouts from the late 9th-7th centuries BC, though the overall register division differs (see also Gubel, 1993, pp.116-118). In vertical compositions, like the examples cited above, a nb basket (Gardiner sign V30) was often placed underneath. It is an omnipresent sign on Egyptian and Egyptianizing seal-amulets, and it can be read as a hieroglyph either meaning ‘lord’ or ‘all/every’ (Keel, 1995, pp.171 §458). Another semi-circular motif encountered underneath compositions, though less frequently, is the hieroglyph for gold (nbw, Gardiner sign S12). The lower section on our scarab, however, shows an exceptional motif: an interpretation of the hieroglyph for an alabaster basin, ḥb (Gardiner sign W3), primarily used in Egyptian script to express words pertaining to celebration, such as ‘festival’ or ‘feasting’. It can easily be distinguished from the nb by its diamond-shaped centre and, in contrast nb, ḥb is extremely rare on Egyptian seal-amulets. It predominantly appears in a more elaborate hieroglyphic form, combining the basin with the bipartite booth sign (Gardiner sign W4), and more specifically during the New Kingdom as part of a royal epithet pertaining to the ḥb-sd or jubilee of the pharaoh. The motif appears sometimes on seal-amulets (e.g. Budge, 1896, nr. 398; Hall, 1913, nr. 1819, 2117, 2118; Jaeger, 1982, 285 n. 98, 287 n. 123; and also on Petrie Museum UC 12307 and UC 12901, and on Brussels Art & History Museum E.06327). Attestations of the simple, basket-shaped form are even more rare. The only examples known to us are situated in the Central Levant. The ḥb basin appears in the shape of a frieze on a Phoenician scarab from the late 8th century BC at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gubel, 2012, pp.28-29, fig.17), and a silver scarab with openwork legs, discovered in an urn burial from the early 8th century at Rashidiye, near Tyre (Doumet, 1982, pl. XIX nr. 117) (fig.8b), shows an ḥb basin underneath a falcon with flail. The scarab was examined by Vanessa Boschloos in Beirut, where it is kept in storage at the National Museum/DGA. Though the upper part of the design has been damaged, the ḥb below it is clearly visible. Scarabs in silver are extremely rare, with the oldest ones dating to the early Middle Kingdom, a handful of exemplars known from the New Kingdom and a few dated to the late Iron Age II-III (Hornung and Staehelin, 1976, p.22; Ward, 1992, n.7; Keel, 1995, p.139). The design on the Rashidiye scarab corresponds closely to the design on a Phoenician scarab of cornelian found at Akhzib (Keel, 1997: Akhzib nr. 116), and it is reminiscent of Egyptian New Kingdom models (cf. Newberry, 1907, pl. VIII lower row; Matouk, 1977, 390 nr. 896; Keel, 1997: Akko nr. 66). Another possible reference to the ḥb sign is the basket-shaped motif decorated with opposite hatching, leaving an empty triangle in the centre, and which should not be confused with the motif of the winged sun disk. It only appears on scarab-shaped seals at a later date in the Levant (e.g. on a scaraboid in Aramean style: Parayre, 1993, fig.31) than in Egypt (Petrie, 1906, pl. XXXIII nr. 40; Engelbach etal., 1915, pl. XVII nr. 27), suggesting that its origin and meaning must be sought in an Egyptian context. The central section of the composition features an Egyptian cartouche flanked by aroused cobras, or uraei. In ancient Egypt, their use as a royal symbol dates back to the 187 171-199 ISSN: 1133-4525 ISSN-e: 2255-3924 SPAL 31.1 (2022) The prestige-goods model applied to the Iberian Southeast during the Early Iron Age: the Phoenician scarab from Castellar de Librilla Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria et al. https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/spal.2022.i31.07 most ancient representations of the pharaoh. On the Castellar de Librilla scarab, the cobra on the right is wearing the Red Crown of Lower Egypt, while the one on the left is wearing the White Crown of Upper Egypt, thus further solidifying the reference to the king. Pairs of uraei on either side of a cartouche, in vertical layout, appear in exceptional circumstances on scarabs before the 18th dynasty (c 1550-1295 BC) (e.g. Keel, 1997: Tell el- Ajjul nr. 326), when they became the central element in royal name seals. They appeared as an oft-recurring theme throughout the Ramesside dynasties, and again during the 25th dynasty (Jaeger, 1982, pp.§ 1062, 1229-1230; Lohwasser, 2014, pp.180-181). The motif’s reference to royal authority is evident in an Egyptian context. Placing a cartouche between pairs of uraei is not without parallels in Egyptianizing iconography outside Egypt, but in such cases it is more often associated with solar than with royal motifs, with numerous examples dating to between the Middle Bronze Age and the 5th-4th century BC (e.g. fig 8c; Gubel, 1993, fig.7; Nicolini, 1990a, 358 nr. 124; Boardman, 2003, 27 nrs. 2/15-2/20, pls. 2-3; Boschloos, 2014, pl. 3.2). The cartouche, however, can easily be reduced to a mere oval encompassing non-royal names, pseudo-inscriptions or pseudo-signs, for example in early Canaanite (Keel, 2010b: Tell el-Far’a Süd 56) and Phoenician glyptic traditions (Gubel, 1993, pp.121-122, figs.19, 20, 60). The cartouche encloses hieroglyphs forming a pseudo-royal name, Mn.j{j} (Gardiner signs Y5 and M17), placed underneath a sun disk (Gardiner sign N5). The name Mn.j is mentioned in Egyptian documents, but not before the New Kingdom. A scarab assigned to the 18th dynasty is considered to contain the earliest mention of the name (Hayes, 1959, 127 on MMA 26.7.150), but its date has been questioned (Heagy, 2014, 61 n. 5). Inscriptions of the type mn.jj / mnjj rc / mnjs rc / rc-mnjj have been documented on Egyptian scarabs from the Third Intermediate Period to the Late Period (e.g. Petrie, 1917, pl. VIII nrs. 1-2, pl. LIII nr. 25C.21; Jaeger, 1982, fig.22; Keel, 2017: Jerusalem nr. 27) as well as on Phoenician scarabs from the 9th-8th centuries BC (e.g. fig.8d; Boschloos, 2014, pl. 1:3, 3:2, 6:4, 7:4). Their meaning on Egyptian seal-amulets probably differs from the intended meanings on non-Egyptian scarabs because Phoenician craftsmen favoured placing them inside an oval or cartouche, like on the Castellar de Librilla scarab, whereas the Egyptians did not. It either fills the entire surface of the seal or it is placed next to a cartouche containing the throne name of Thutsmose III. If an oval surrounds the mnjj rc inscription, closer examination will often immediately reveal that the two ‘reed signs’ are connected at their bases. Unless the object is examined first-hand, mnjj rc inscriptions can be mistaken for those forming the name of Pharaoh Menkaure / Mykerinos, (Mn-k3.w-rc), with the raised arms k3 (Gardiner sign D28) being confused with the pair of reeds, j (Gardiner sign M17) (see, e.g. Keel, 1997: Akko nr. 48). However, according to Kitchen, the cartouche seems to have lost most of its original significance in Phoenician artistic expressions (Kitchen, 1986, p.40). Contrary to its Egyptian counterpart, it normally does not feature proper names but ‘simply garbled phrases from formal speeches of the gods used in innumerable standard scenes of pharaoh and his gods, and sometimes including deities’ names’ (Kitchen in Herrmann and Laidlaw, 2009, pp.161, also 162-164, 196-197). In older Egyptological literature, mn.jj / mnjj rc was read as the name of Menes, the legendary founder of the Egyptian 1st dynasty (end of the 4th millennium BC) (Vinson, 2001; Heagy, 2014), the name of a king called Ra-meny or Khmuny, or an abbreviated version of the throne name for Thutmose III, Mn-ḫpr-rc (von Beckerath, 1969, p.59; Jaeger, 1982, p.286 n. 108). There is now a consensus among scholars that it more likely represents an inverted writing of the name Amun (Jmn), or Amun-Re in those cases where a sun disk was added (Hornung and Staehelin, 1976, pp.44-45; Keel, 1995: 188 171-199 ISSN: 1133-4525 ISSN-e: 2255-3924 SPAL 31.1 (2022) The prestige-goods model applied to the Iberian Southeast during the Early Iron Age: the Phoenician scarab from Castellar de Librilla Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria et al. https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/spal.2022.i31.07 p.§ 625). E. Hornung concludes that “Damit bildet dieser “Königsname” eine Brücke zwischen der Königsherrschaft von Göttern und der Herrschaft von irdisch-historischen Königen” (Hornung and Staehelin, 1976, p.45), making it a mythical, ‘ideal’ name with strong beneficent and sacred power, but without historical foundation. It is tempting to associate the pair of uraei wearing the red and white crowns on the Castellar de Librilla scarab with the achievements assigned to Menes (‘king something’), the name given to the ruler or rulers who unified Lower and Upper Egypt and founded Memphis and who were celebrated from the time of the New Kingdom onwards. While the inscription on our scarab cannot be mistaken for an Egyptian royal name, such as Menkheperre or Menkaure, the overwhelmingly royal nature of the chosen motifs -recumbent lion, crowned uraei, cartouche and jubilee hieroglyphexcludes an inverted writing of the name Amun-Re. It is also noteworthy that parallels for the mn.jj cartouche flanked by uraei can only be found in Phoenician corpora, examples of which were cited above. To Figura 9. Detail of main scarabs referred to in the text (Design: authors. Images: Baria: Alberto Lorrio Alvarado©; Castellar de Librilla: -Jesús Gómez Carrasco©-; Fonteta -Museo Arqueológico de Guardamar©-; Treasure of Aliseda –Museo Arqueológico Nacional / Arantxa Boyero Lirón©-; Tomb of the Warrior in Málaga -Museo de Málaga / David García González©-). 189 171-199 ISSN: 1133-4525 ISSN-e: 2255-3924 SPAL 31.1 (2022) The prestige-goods model applied to the Iberian Southeast during the Early Iron Age: the Phoenician scarab from Castellar de Librilla Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria et al. https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/spal.2022.i31.07 conclude, this Phoenician interpretation of an Egyptian multifunctional ‘name’ seemingly acknowledges its original, Egyptian royal connotations. 5. DISCUSSION The quality of this artefact and its exceptional nature within the framework of Early Iron Age settlements of the Iberian Southeast can be observed through its material, technical and stylistic characteristics. The analysis of typological and iconographical elements made it possible to define its chronology and propose its origin. Both the scarab and the gold bezel in which it is mounted reveal the handiwork of Phoenician craftsmen. Detailed analysis of the composition decorating the underside of the scarab identifies it as a Phoenician interpretation of design elements that were originally developed in Egypt during the New Kingdom. The combination of details, such as the single line divider and the corrupt jubilee sign with the mnjj rc cartouche, must be placed in the 8th century BC, or in the late 8th to early 7th century BC at the latest. Based on the chronological development of the type of gold setting, the scarab was mounted in its present bezel in the (late) 7th century BC. This period overlaps with the late 7th century - early 6th century BC date of the ceramic assemblage identified in the midden of Sector 13 (Cutillas and Ros Sala, 2020, pp.86-87). This also corresponds to the dates proposed for similar scarab finds in the Iberian Peninsula, as is the case for the scarab from Baria, which has been assigned to the 7th century BC (Almagro-Gorbea and Lorrio Alvarado, 2015, p.71); the exemplars from the Treasure of Aliseda (Almagro-Gorbea etal., 2009, pp.86-87) and the scarab from Pancorvo (Mancebo and Ferrer, 1992, p.313), dated to the end of the 7th century BC or the beginning of the next; and, from the 6th century BC, the ring from the Tomb of the Warrior in Málaga (García González etal., 2018), the scarab of glass paste from Fonteta (Escolano Poveda, 2010, p.101) and various Egyptianizing scarabs from Ibiza (Boardman etal., 1984). Attention must be given to the quality of the gold with which the mount was manufactured, with a purity exceeding 99% according to non-destructive microanalysis (Perea etal., 2010), and which in this respect hardly has any parallels among other jewels corresponding to this period. The exceptional quality of the object is furthermore underscored by the semi-precious stone used for the scarab it holds as well as its iconographical content. The royal nature of the selected symbols -recumbent lion, crowned uraei, cartouche, jubilee hieroglyphstands out compared to the few specimens identified in the Iberian Peninsula that bear isolated attestations to this set of iconographic elements. Only one other scarab with a cartouche and in this class of materials has been found, in the Tomb of the Warrior in Málaga, which possibly displays the praenomen of Necao I (Ortiz García and Jiménez Higueras, 2018, p.254), while the recumbent lion has only been found on the scarab from Pancorvo (Mancebo and Ferrer, 1992, p.315) and a possible uraeus in the upper register of the scarab from Baria (Almagro-Gorbea and Lorrio Alvarado, 2015, p.68). Regarding the function of this scarab, comparison with other items identified in the Iberian Peninsula allows us to consider, with some certainty, its use as a tilting element incorporated into a ring or pendant. Although we do not know the type of ring linked to the three comparable scarab finds -at Castellar de Librilla, Fonteta and Bariait could have been made of silver, such as those from the Tomb of the Warrior in Málaga (Ortiz 190 171-199 ISSN: 1133-4525 ISSN-e: 2255-3924 SPAL 31.1 (2022) The prestige-goods model applied to the Iberian Southeast during the Early Iron Age: the Phoenician scarab from Castellar de Librilla Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria et al. https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/spal.2022.i31.07 García and Jiménez Higueras, 2018) or Bajo de la Campana (Azuar and Pérez, 2008), or even of gold, like the items from the Treasure of Aliseda (Mélida, 1921; Perea, 2007; Almagro-Gorbea and Dávila, 2016) (fig.8). In this way, this scarab would have been part of a larger piece destined for personal use and adornment that, due to its tangible and intangible characteristics, would have been adapted to the canons that have been identified as typical of prestigious goods (Pedraza, 2017) and would have been closely linked to a certain individual and probably his/her lineage. With this set of observations, different questions can be raised regarding the presence of a jewel of this type in one of the main autochthonous settlements of the Iberian Southeast. What kind of individual would it have been associated with? What would have been its internal function? How did it arrive at Castellar de Librilla, and when? The identification of a scarab with these characteristics in the pre-littoral zone of the region implies a significant find when considering the role of local communities in the larger context of relations between them and the Phoenicians. However, it is necessary to emphasise that, in this particular case, we have a direct association with the archaeological record for the midden of Sector 13 at Castellar de Librilla. This sector is entirely connected with the urban plan of the settlement, and two options have been proposed regarding its functionality: it was an area destined either for the construction of a fortress that would have taken advantage of its ideal location or for the construction of residences for local elites (Cutillas and Ros Sala, 2020, p.88), as has been proposed in the case of Sector III at Peña Negra (Lorrio Alvarado etal., 2016, p.39). The scarab mounted in a solid gold setting could reinforce this last hypothesis, although this question will not be resolved until this sector and the midden are fully excavated. Regarding the owner of the mounted scarab, it must have belonged to one of the main aristocrats of the city. Such objects were restricted to the upper classes both in Phoenician colonial settlements and in the autochthonous settlements, and their link to the notion of prestige is evident due to the value of the materials, the specialised nature of the work when preparing it and its iconographic codes. In relation to other finds of this type of scarab in the Iberian Peninsula (fig. 9), the archaeological records that are best known are the Treasure of Aliseda (Mélida, 1921; Rodríguez etal., 2020), the small treasure of Peña Negra (González Prats, 1978) and the Tomb of the Warrior in Málaga (García González etal., 2018). In the case of the first two, they represent intentional concealments made by a member of a powerful family capable of hoarding these prestigious objects. For the Málaga burial, this type of scarab is associated with a funerary architecture of notable importance and the trousseau of an individual linked to military power, as evidenced by the weapons and objects of exceptional value that it accompanied at the site. Although the latter find may have belonged to a foreign individual (García González etal., 2018), the concealments at Aliseda and Peña Negra allow for an interesting debate on emulation and the value of such prestige goods for local communities as symbols of power and legitimating elements filtered through non-native codes and images. The incorporation of such goods must be understood as a consequence of the dynamics of cultural encounter that intensified from the 8th century BC onwards with the installation of the Phoenicians and the introduction of foreign materials, products and practices to the Iberian Peninsula. The arrival of new iconographic languages has been analysed as one of the most important results of this complex phenomenon. If new codes are not reproduced automatically in local products, such as pottery or goldsmithing, then technical, typological and iconographical hybridisation can be observed, but in 191 171-199 ISSN: 1133-4525 ISSN-e: 2255-3924 SPAL 31.1 (2022) The prestige-goods model applied to the Iberian Southeast during the Early Iron Age: the Phoenician scarab from Castellar de Librilla Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria et al. https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/spal.2022.i31.07 the case of certain prestige goods the original form was generally accepted. This situation can be noted for most jewellery and personal adornment items in general, and for bezel mountings with scarabs in particular. The autochthonous aristocracies decide to adopt a new oriental iconographic language that they could incorporate as their own in its original form, adding it to other traditional elements or even endowing themselves with a completely new aesthetic, as is evident in tomb 5 of the necropolis at Collado y Pinar de Santa Ana (Hernández Carrión and Gil González, 2001-2002). Through processes of differentiation and exclusivity, they could reinforce their social status and consolidate their power, especially in the face of the very resources that they needed to mobilise to achieve it. However, this reality is only one part of the social and ideological patterns embraced by such elites, because, although foreign elements and their related practices were adopted, a certain local agency can be observed in more everyday spheres, such as the ceramic assemblages identified in the midden of Sector 13 at Castellar de Librilla. In this sense, we hardly find material differences with what has been documented in other sectors of the settlement (Ros Sala, 1989), highlighting the importance of these transversal approaches and top-down models (Delgado Hervás, 2013) for understanding everyday life as a crystallisation of the identity of these communities. This local agency must be accounted for when approaching these Iberian communities, thereby making it possible to assess the different modes of interaction, emulation and hybridisation that took place between Phoenicians and the autochthonous population (Vives-Ferrándiz, 2005). Such local agency carries with it the demand for this type of prestige goods, making it possible to maintain and boost a prestigious goods trade capable of connecting different parts of the Mediterranean. The arrival of these distinguished items from distant ports attests to this fact, and their identification in cargos, such as at Bajo de la Campana (Polzer, 2014; Pinedo Reyes, 2018), gives us an idea of the nature of this specialised trade. However, the coexistence of such products and the exceptional nature of the items lead us to suggest that the trade of prestige goods was but another aspect of the overall economic and commercial dynamics of the time. Prestige goods constituted a limited, but significant, part of all trade and cannot be disconnected from larger economic and commercial realities, but neither did they determine the entire system of socio-economic and cultural development as strictly as the economy of prestige goods suggest. 6. FINAL REMARKS Fieldwork in the protohistoric settlement of Castellar de Librilla continues to reveal the potential of this site and the importance of this settlement during the Early Iron Age. The arrival of a piece of jewellery of remarkable quality and with few parallels at the peninsular level, at least in terms of the purity of its gold, point to the significant participation of the autochthonous elites in Mediterranean trade routes that are not restricted exclusively to raw materials and mineral resources. The trade of prestige goods not only reached the peninsular coast and its Phoenician colonial settlements, but also found customers among the autochthonous elites and aristocracies. However, these exchanges cannot only be framed in terms of how such items facilitated relationships and alliances, as has been proposed for the pre-colonial horizon and the first phase of the Phoenician colonisation (Aubet, 1994; López Castro etal., 2017). 192 171-199 ISSN: 1133-4525 ISSN-e: 2255-3924 SPAL 31.1 (2022) The prestige-goods model applied to the Iberian Southeast during the Early Iron Age: the Phoenician scarab from Castellar de Librilla Benjamín Cutillas-Victoria et al. https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/spal.2022.i31.07 Late in the 7th century BC, or else in the following century, relations between western Phoenicians and autochthonous aristocracies were consolidated, though not without tension, but nonetheless well documented after more than a century of coexistence. Not surprisingly, autochthonous societies were also capable of developing agency, demanding these types of luxury objects for themselves as a matter of personal and social prestige. In this way, the elites of the autochthonous settlements participated in the dynamism of the trade of restricted-use goods, which, although limited in number, did find their own routes and spaces in the trade transactions. Consideration of autochthonous agency and the existence of horizontal relationships shifts the focus of attention to the dynamic aspects of Early Iron Age communities (Vives-Ferrándiz, 2005; Dietler, 2009), allowing for a more precise approach to their evolution without denying the extent to which the Phoenicians impacted their development. In this sense, the transmission by the Phoenicians of new ideals and symbols linked to power would already have been a reality among the autochthonous aristocracies. This would explain the selective demand for certain prestige goods as a way of crystallising this new ideological pattern of emulating Phoenician elites and the process of hybridisation, and it makes more concrete an important part of the ideological system and means of legitimating power built and perpetuated by these elites, or at least their ways of representing and distinguishing themselves. Funding and acknowledgements This work was developed in the framework of the research project ALAFMET: Alfarerías autóctonas y fenicias en el SE ibérico. Una mirada arqueométrica supported by Fundación PALARQ. The chemical analyses presented were carried out in the Microscopy Laboratory of the Scientific and Technical Research Area of the University of Murcia. 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