Balearic Islands · c. 654 BCE
Ibiza
Yibosim / Ebusus
The western island
Ebusus. Yibosim. A Phoenician-Punic island west of the mother coast, on the road that ends at the bulls of Gadir.
Ibiza Town from Puig des Molins
Later walls on a Phoenician island · Eivissa / Yibosim · Balearic Sea
The Punic necropolis of Puig des Molins lies on this slope (UNESCO)
Wikimedia Commons · JanManu · Puig des Molins, Ibiza
Gad Yaton: They buried here as they buried at Tyre. The island kept the dead and the letters.
Yibosim
Sa Caleta on the south shore is the first Phoenician settlement, a headland of rooms facing the sea, dated to the seventh century. The town later sat where Ibiza Town sits. The name in Punic is Yibosim; the Greeks and Romans said Ebusus. Not a holiday. A western door of Tyre and then of Carthage.
From this island the road runs on to Gadir. The same lord of the city. The same letters. The same habit of putting the dead on a hill above the harbor.
Puig des Molins
The photograph looks from the hill of Puig des Molins toward Dalt Vila — later walls, a later cathedral, on a Phoenician island. The Punic necropolis of Puig des Molins is on this slope: thousands of hypogea, a UNESCO site, the dead of Ebusus packed in the rock as at Motya, as at Tyre.
Terracottas from these graves sit now in Madrid. The west comes for the water. The graves were first.
Gad Yaton: they buried on Puig des Molins as they buried at Tyre. The island kept the dead. The west kept the beaches and forgot the graves.