The Construction of a New Collective Memory in Phoenicia as a Response to Achaemenid Power. Material Culture as an 'Objectified Cultural Capital'

in SEMITICA, 61 (2019)
I shall propose here some reflections on the allegation of a new
collective memory in Phoenicia as a possible response to Achaemenid
power. In fact, during the Persian period, in Phoenicia, material
culture seems to reflect the attempt to react to Persian imperial
power. Although cultural continuity is clearly perceptible in
the ceramic tradition and in many other categories of Phoenician
material culture, new iconographies and new architectural solutions
spread. These refer (explicitly or implicitly) to the imperial
Achaemenid world.