A database for the aegyptiaca from the Iberian southwest: colonial encounters and the ‘Mediterranization’ of the Atlantic Iberian societies (8th to 5th centuries BC)

This is a preliminary study on the presence of aegyptiaca on the Western coast of the Iberian Peninsula. This article deals with the Egyptian and Egyptianizing material brought to the Iberian territory by the Phoenician expansion between the 8th and 5th centuries BC. As this material is still little studied, proposing the construction of a corpus for the region of the Iberian southwest will be a valuable tool for understanding the phenomenon of relations between natives and foreigners.
Thus, this material culture will be the basis for a study of the Phoenician presence in what was once a geopolitical unit: the Iberian southwest. Commercial relations,
technology transfer and the subsequent transition from Late Bronze to Early Iron ages between native societies are topics of interest in this corpus development.
The presence of luxury goods in native and mixed necropolises demonstrates the gradual process of adopting Mediterranean elements in the funerary rites and in the daily relationships of these native societies, illuminating an entire process of social reformulation and giving rise to more complex hierarchical structures.