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The Municipal Archaeological Museum 'Enrique Escudero de Castro' of Cartagena has just added a new heading to its collection on the morning of October 23.
It is part of what should have been an epigraph of great dimensions and in which the name of Caius Numisius can still be read.
The Tombstone Numisius has been received in the Museum by the Mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén Castejón, the Councilor for Culture, David Martínez, the Councilor Delegate for this area, Carlos Piñana, accompanied by the technician of the Municipal Archaeological Museum, María Luisa Saura and the general director of Strategic Projects of Historical-Artistic Heritage and Culture, Damián Pérez.
Also, the councilor of the municipal corporation, Jesús Giménez, has attended.
The epigraph, according to the testimony of the historian Ceán Bermúdez, was embedded in one of the walls of a building annexed to the monastery of San Ginés de la Jara.
The inscription was subtracted in 2005 from the place where it was located, in the monastery of San Ginés, and was recovered by technicians of the General Directorate of Cultural Property in 2017, to be temporarily deposited, for cleaning and study in the Provincial Archaeological Museum of Murcia, until its transfer to the Municipal Archaeological Museum of Cartagena was arranged.
This inscription comes to enrich the already valuable epigraphic heritage of the Roman era that Cartagena treasures, most of which is exhibited among the collections that this Museum guards.
An epigraphic set that constitutes, without a doubt, not only one of the most outstanding archaeological values ​​in the history of our city but also, as numerous researchers have recognized, a must-have reference for the study of the epigraphy of the Roman world.
In the texts of many of these inscriptions of the Cartagena Museum some families or gens who lived in the city and who intervened in the field of political or commercial life of Roman Cartagena appear personified.
Precisely, in the context of those families in which the Numisia gens stand out above all.
Gens or Family that had a strong and stable integration in the public life of Cartago Nova, where it was present from the middle of the 1st century BC and until the middle of the 2nd century AD.
A strong implantation of these gens in the Roman Nova Carthage that has transcended the frontier of the centuries to the point that one of the most traditional legions of our Carthaginian and Roman festivities took the name of Gens Numisius.
Legion that was founded precisely taking as a reference the character of Caius Numisius that appears in this section.
A person who must have been the owner of a luxurious rural village on which, some century later, the monastery of San Ginés de la Jara would rise, reusing some of the remains of this Roman rural establishment, including this heading to build its walls .
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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