Object type
stele
Culture/period
Protohistory and Iberian world
Materials
sandstone
Technique
carving
Mint
Production date
-200 / -50
Current location
Exposició permanent
Archaeological site
Can Fatjó
Township
Rubí (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Barcelona, Vallès Occidental)
Dimensions
1480 x 385 x 260 mm
Description
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Sandstone stele with the representation of spearheads located in 1968 by Francesc Margenat during development work in the district of Can Fatjó (Rubi, el Vallès Occidental), an Iberian settlement. The top and the left side are damaged and material is lost in the front.
Three strips with carved spears are sculpted on the main face. Seven in the upper frieze, of which only the distal end is preserved, four in the middle and four more at the bottom.
Aragon and Catalonia concentrate the finds of this type of stele with representations of spears, sometimes combined with figurative elements. They are of a late chronology between the second and first centuries BC, and are associated with territorial markers or as funerary steles marking graves. In any case they are representative of the elite, for whom spears were a key element, along with the sword and helmet in the panoply of warriors.
MARGENAT RIBAS, F., Les Esteles ibèriques amb representacions de llances. El cas de Rubí, Butlletí del Grup de Col·laboradors del Museu de Rubí. 5, 2-21.
© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Barcelona
Omeka ID
2577