THE BRONZE AGE STELA FROM MONTE DO ULMO (SANTA VITÓRIA, BEJA)

Authors

  • Miguel Serra Palimpsesto, Estudo e Preservação do Património Cultural, Lda. Centro de Estudos em Arqueologia, Artes e Ciências do Património (CEAACP)
  • Eduardo Porfírio Palimpsesto, Estudo e Preservação do Património Cultural, Lda. Centro de Estudos em Arqueologia, Artes e Ciências do Património (CEAACP)
  • Sofia Soares Geobiotec (UID/GEO/04035/2013), Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão – Instituto Politécnico de Beja

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-8657_53_1

Keywords:

stela, anchor-shaped object, rian south-west bronze age, Santa Vitória

Abstract

A new stela from a group called type I stela or Alentejo slabs, was identified in April 2015. This stela appeared in 2013 in the course of agricultural works in a farmland near Monte do Ulmo (Santa Vitória, Beja).
A necropolis of cists dating from the Iberian South-West Bronze Age was identified at the same location in the 1940`s.
The stela from Monte do Ulmo shows a single representation, an anchor-shaped object, which has been engraved on high relief in a greywacke stone, probably from local provenance.
Archaeological prospection carried out in the finding area revealed evidence that may presuppose the existence of a necropolis, in which this stela could have been originally.
This piece is the most recent finding of its kind, dating from the Iberian South-West Bronze Age and, along with a number of necropolis and other stelae with the same chronology, previously known in the region, it confirms the importance of Santa Vitória area during that period.

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Published

2014-12-20

How to Cite

Serra, M., Porfírio, E., & Soares, S. (2014). THE BRONZE AGE STELA FROM MONTE DO ULMO (SANTA VITÓRIA, BEJA). Conimbriga, 53, pp. 5-30. https://doi.org/10.14195/1647-8657_53_1

Issue

Vol. 53 (2014): Conímbriga v. 53

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