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Phoenician Lady of Cádiz can be considered with absolute certainty as one of the oldest of its kind. Its realisation is placed around the year 470 BC, an early date in relation to the other similar works that some museums of the world conserve. The trousseau is quite discreet, since the Phoenician-Gaditan society did not show their social status through jewellery.
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On 26 September 1980, during excavation works aimed at laying the foundations for a new construction on Ruiz de Alda street in Cádiz, the oldest and most valuable
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This figure conserves nuanced remains of the colours with which the carvers from the other end of the
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In one of these tombs was also inclosed a monolithic sarcophagus of white marble of the form called anthropoid and measuring 2.15 metres in length by 0.67 in width. This sarcophagus was soon preserved in the local museum, whose director was one Father Vera. According to the account published in the
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Quintero Atauri had, in short, a dream, but he never knew that he was sleeping on that dream … It never occurs to us to look at the land we tread every day of our existence, although most of the time that trampled land is the only accessible treasure: an insignificant place in the
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In 1887, there were met with at the gates of Cádiz, at about five metres beneath the surface of the earth, three rude tombs of shelly limestone, in which were found some skeletons, a few small bronze instruments and some trinkets—the latter of undoubted oriental manufacture.
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