Il Carambolo: divinità orientali nel regno di Argantonio

2016

This paper presents a complex Iberian sanctuary from the archaeological diggings realized in the Iberian oppidum of Puente Tablas (Jaén, Spain). The sanctuary, dated form the first half of the sixth century BC, covers an area over 300m 2 and is divided in three different terraces with elements as significant as a shrine shaping a bull's skin, a set of four caves or a water canal that goes across the sanctuary from north to south. The underlying idea in this sanctuary and the findings that surrounds it, is the representation of an annual cycle from the illumination of the Stela (as a representation of a goddess) along the corridor of the door that gives access to the oppidum in the days of the equinox in the Sunrise, producing a spectacular play the light and shadows. To complete the mentioned play of light during such a particular date, the disposition of the fourth cave, along with its access, allows the entrance of the sunrays only in the dawn of the equinotial days, and just after the Stela, illuminated in the edge of the Sunrise, is cover with the shadows produced by the gate in the wall.

8th International Congress of Phoenician and Punic Studies (M. Guirguis ed.). Folia Phoenicia 2, Rome, 2018

This paper is a preliminary report of the archaeological site of Lapa da Cova (Sesimbra, Portugal), a small rock cavity located in the highest part of the cliffs that make up the Atlantic coast in the vicinity of the Sierra del Risco, in the southern line of the Peninsula de Setúbal. In the year 2010 the cave was the subject of an emergency archaeological excavation that allowed the documentation of only one Early Iron Age occupation. Both the location of the site and the type of associated findings (gold jewelry, ritual bronzes, glass ornaments, and, mainly, amphorae) suggest a cult use for this location, which would be related to the trade networks in the area of Cape Espichel, between the mouth of the Tagus and Sado rivers, during the time of Phoenician and Punic colonization.

Historia Ambiental Latinoamericana y Caribeña (HALAC) revista de la Solcha, 2020

Junto das fábricas, fazendas, laboratórios e zoológicos, os matadouros de animais para o consumo humano de carne foram alguns dos ambientes predominantes nas mediações das relações entre humanos e animais no século XIX e que podem ser analisados com o aparato teórico e epistemológico da história ambiental e da animal-human history. Isto posto, buscaremos tratar no presente artigo da história do matadouro da praia de Santa Luzia, o primeiro matadouro público do Rio de Janeiro, e compreendendo o mesmo enquanto espaço de constantes interações entre mundo biofísico, espécies animais destinadas ao consumo humano e da cidade com seus habitantes. Em 1853, durante as epidemias dos anos 1850, o matadouro foi desativado e depois transformado em Albergue, de modo que as práticas de matanças seriam deslocadas para outro lugar, trocando-se a praia e o mar pelos manguezais da cidade.

Robert Sala Ramos (Ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene Hunter-Gatherers In Iberia And The Gibraltar Strait: the current Archaeological record , 2014

2012

The imperial cult area of Tarraco was built in the 1st century AD in the highest part of the city and presided over the seat of the Concilium Prouinciae Hispaniae Citerioris. It was a temenos with a similar layout to that of the Forum Pacis and architectural decoration imitating that of the Forum Augustum in Rome, where the use of marble was a fundamental part of the architectural and sculptural decorative programme. An extensive assemblage of marble was recovered during the excavations carried out under the Tarragona Cathedral Master Plan. It reflects the use of imperial quarries in the decorative programme and has been analyzed at the Unitat d’Estudis Arqueometrics (ICAC) facilities. This assemblage reflects the wide panorama of marmora imported and used in the decoration of the temenos. Local varieties of Marmora have been identified in Tarraco, plus a series of foreign marmora from quarries all over the Roman Empire (Greece, Turkey, Egypt and North Africa). All this shows the involvement of the imperial power in the monumental architecture of the capital of the prouincia Hispania Citerior.

Cries and Whispers in …, 2010

2019

The discovery in Parque Arqueológico del Molinete (Insula II), Cartagena (Murcia, Spain; Hispania citerior) of a sanctuary to Isis and Serapis is one of the most significant archaeological events for the city in the last quarter century. The building was discovered between 2009 and 2017, and its now ‘dead’ materials can provide a large volume of information about the Isiac religion lived and felt by the city’s inhabitants, nearly 2000 years ago. It is, therefore, an important discovery at several levels. First, for its contribution to our knowledge about the history and sacred topography of the Roman colony of Carthago Nova between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD. The new sanctuary, whose temenos is almost completely preserved, provides further data with which to reconstruct the urban layout of the central sector of the colony, at the foot of the acropolis, between the harbour and the colonial forum, as well as presenting us with information about the cults introduced in the city by the gens isiaca in the opening decades of the 1st century AD; the chronology of the sanctuary, in the Flavian period, frames it within Vespasian’s promotion of the Isiac cult, which was to undergo what L. Bricault has labelled as a new wave of Mediterranean ‘penetration’. The sanctuary also allows for the exploration of the role played by the Isiac religion, which may have been made an official cult at this stage, and its brethren in the history of the colony during the early imperial period. Finally, the transformations undergone by the sanctuary between the 3rd and 7th centuries AD will provide valuable information about the urban, social and economic dynamics undergone by the city during Late Antiquity. Second, the new sanctuary dramatically increases our knowledge about Nilotic cults in Hispania; the only Isiac sanctuaries known to date are located in Emporiae, Baelo Claudia, Italica and, perhaps, Panóias. Third, its good state of preservation has allowed, following the standard criteria developed for Insula I, Parque Arqueológico del Molinete, to undertake conservation, restoration and musealisation works, turning the remains into a powerful resource with which to continue contributing to Cartagena’s cultural and touristic projects. After the excavation and musealisation of the sanctuary came to an end in July 2017, and after the initial analysis of the results, this volume presents the sanctuary, its most prominent historical and archaeological features, and the conservation and restoration works undertaken, to the scientific community and the general public. The volume, therefore, is the expression of our commitment to archaeology and the management of archaeological heritage. It is divided into several sections. The two opening chapters introduce the cults of Isis and Serapis and the everyday routines of an Isiac sanctuary, as well as the role played by oriental and Alexandrine religions in Carthago Nova. The central section examines the sanctuary from the perspective of sacred spaces, as well as the urban, architectural and functional transformations undergone by the complex between the 3rd and 7th centuries. The final section focuses on the conservation and restoration works and on the various activities undertaken for the presentation of the sanctuary to the public. Some chapters (especially Chapter III), include a Catalogue with the finds that form the basis of archaeological interpretation.

ROCK & RITUAL Caves, Rocky Places and Religious Practices in the Ancient Mediterranean, 2021

Quaderni Friulani di Archeologia, Anno XXX, nº1, 2020

The archaeological site of Cerro de la Virgen de la Muela, the ancient Roman city of Caraca, is placed on Driebes, a village located in the Spanish province of Guadalajara which is included in the autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha. This city was strategically based on central Spain, in a hill alongside Tagus river surrounded by two streams running Eastwards, Arroyo del Barranco, and Westwards, Arroyo Salobre. Also, there is evidence of river navigation at the Tagus river as some amphorae were found associated to a hypothetic Roman pier in the nearby northern village of Trillo. In this paper we want to summarize the publications of the multidisciplinary research team involved in the study of this archaeological site.

EGA Revista de Expresión Gráfica Arquitectónica