CHIBANES: PROTO-HISTORIC AND ROMAN-REPUBLICAN DATA FROM THE COLLECTION OF A. I. MARQUES DA COSTA ON REVIEW

Abstract

The major interest on amphorae and metallic materials from the ancient fieldwork carried out in Chibanes and published in O Arqueólogo Português by António Inácio Marques da Costa in the first decade of the 20th century led to the revision of the entire collection deposited in the National Museum of Archaeology.

The history of the investigation on this particular collection is analyzed in the course of the preparation of a volume dedicated to the last twenty years of the research project developed on Chibanes by the Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Setubal District (MAEDS) / AMRS. There is a commitment to keep the memory of the pioneer archaeologist, A. I. Marques da Costa, in our region and the aim to get some artifacts with undeniable quality and typological relevance acquainted.