La crátera de la tumba 184 de Agullana y otros soportes y pies calados de Cataluña y el Languedoc: aproximación al origen, uso y significado

Raimon Graells I Fabregat, Fabregat-Samuel Sardà Seuma,

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Abstract

The presence of the complex banquet in the First Iron Age communities of the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula takes place, at the beginnig, from the contact with the mediterranean traders, specially from the contact with the Phoenicians. At the same time the banquet implied for these communities a restructuring of the pottery dedicated to this purpose. In this context the ceramic is organized in different groups and it is documented based on a functional logic of the classical banquet, with elements to consume, to serve and to contain. This is detected at the same time with the import and production of new forms and new ways to produce ceramics to complete these functions like oenochoai and craters. The case presented here is a peculiar type of vase, the crater with soaked high foot, context and its parallels, with the purpose of approaching a particular reality as it is the formation of a new material culture based on new necessities of social exhibition.