Candlesticks from Lebrija

Found on 26 April 1923 it is a set of six pieces that were originally made using a combination of lost-wax casting, moulding and plastic deformation. Each piece consist of a shaft formed by parallel disks that end in a flat platform at the upper part and in a stepped conical base or foot. They were made by indigenous craftsmen in the same workshop, from gold similar to that used during the Late Bronze Age, during the initial contact between the Tartessians and the Phoenicians around the 8th century BC. Today, these are not believed to be functional objects but instead that they represent an aniconic oriental divinity, meaning it does not have a specific shape. Deities are sometimes represented, for example, as several decorative columns in some Mediterranean shrines. They may have been part of a temple hoard and have no equal anywhere else in the Mediterranean.