Abstract
The Phoenician settlement in Ibiza was framed within the commercial expansion of the Phoenician colonies in the south of the Iberian Peninsula during the 7th century BC, the period of its greatest height. With the founding of Ibiza, the Phoenicians sought to have an enclave that would serve as support in their navigation routes along the eastern coasts of the Iberian Peninsula and towards the Gulf of Lion, which allowed them to access new markets and products thanks to their contacts with different indigenous peoples. Everything changed around 600 BC, when the prosperity of the Phoenician colonies of the "circle of the Strait" began to decline, and this had consequences in Ibiza.
