Anatre o quaglie

Abstract

In a recent article it is proposed that an ornithomorphic askos, probably depicting a duck, found in the tophet of Carthage and datable not after the seventh century BC, instead depicts a quail or a rooster on the basis of Greek influences arrived in the Punic world during the Hellenistic era. The Mycenaean, Cypriot, Near-Eastern and Phoenician ornithomorphic askoi found between the second half of the second millennium and the first half of the first millennium BC seem instead to represent mainly ducks.