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The Treasure of Abengibre

Abengibre, La Manchuela, Albacete

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The Treasure of Abengibre

Curiosity · Abengibre, La Manchuela, Albacete

Image of Abengibre, not of the place itself.

In October 1934 the farmer Sebastián Pérez López chanced upon, in the Vallejo de las Viñas area, a rich set of Iberian silver tableware produced between the 4th and 2nd centuries BC. Made up of circular platters, plates and bowls shaped on a lathe and decorated with a chisel with plant motifs and figures of Iberian warriors and animals, six of its plates also bear votive inscriptions in the southern Iberian alphabet. It is thought to have belonged to the ceremonial fittings of a sanctuary, built up through successive offerings and personalised with inscriptions referring to its owners, rather than to everyday use. Kept today in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, it provided decisive information on Iberian script.

Photo: DiazArocas (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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