Atunes púnicos y vinos egeos en una taberna de la Grecia Clásica. Resultados iniciales del Corinth Punic Amphora Building Project

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A small building was excavated in the center of the ancient city of Corinth between 1977 and 1979.The discovery quickly generated a remarkable attention given the scarcity of vestiges of the 5thcentury BC urban plan, but also (and above all) because of the abundance in those contexts ofwestern Punic amphorae linked to the importation of salted fish from the periphery of theMediterranean world. The publication of the preliminary reports and some specific works arousedgreat expectations, given that it was a “closed context” that supported the information transmittedby various Greek literary sources and that the remains of fish were in an exceptional state ofconservation. However, the final excavation report was never published and most of the data hasremained unpublished. In any case, the Punic Amphora Building has been regularly used along thelast decades as a key reference in the scientific literature devoted to the study of fishing andmaritime trade in Antiquity, at the same time that the investigations on the western Punic amphoraworkshops or fish-processing sites took a step forward. This paper summarizes the first results andmain lines of action of the Spanish-American project that since 2014 works on the remains of thisCorinthian building, as well as some reflections on the connections between the classical GreekWorld and the Punic communities of the Strait of Gibraltar area.