Magacela stele

By the 20th century, the slate stele had been repurposed as part of an orchard wall in Magacela, in the Spanish province of Badajoz.^[2] The owner of the property, Juan Delgado Torres, took the stele to the municipal hall and the artifact became known to the wider public in 1950.^[3] It was later donated to the personal collection of Eduardo Ezquer Gabaldón [es] in San Pedro de Mérida.^[3] It later became part of the collection of the National Archaeological Museum.

The carved surface of the stele features a schematic human figure depicting a male warrior or chieftain (wearing a helmet with oversized horns), an edged weapon, a spear and an object tentatively identified as a handheld mirror.^[2] The objects are pointing down, underpinning the funerary nature of the artifact.^[2] Below the rest of elements there is a carved round shield.^[4]

Citations

Bibliography

• Almagro, Martín (1966). Las estelas decoradas del suroeste peninsular. Vol. III. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universidad de Madrid. ISBN 9788400014759.
• Blanco Freijeiro, Antonio (1980), "El cipo de Magacela", Alminar (16), Badajoz: 16–17 – via Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes
• Ruiz-Gálvez Priego, Marisa (2019). "De hombres y dioses: la estela de guerrero de Magacela y el rp'um". Un periplo docente e investigador. Estudios en homenaje al profesor Antonio Tejera Gaspar. Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna. pp. 463–480. ISBN 978-84-15939-67-2.

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