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.