| The publication is dedicated to the meeting held in the city and in which researchers from all over Spain exposed the latest archaeological finds made in Carmona, Écija, Itálica , Segóbriga and Cartagena | The Municipal Archaeological Museum of Cartagena Enrique Escudero de Castro, has published a new issue of Mastia magazine.
This annual magazine dedicates this new issue, the 15th of the series, on a monographic basis to the scientific meeting held in Cartagena, on October 4 and 5, 2018, on 'The amphitheatres of Hispania in the 21st century .
News and proposals in today's cities'.The meeting, organized by the Cartagena City Council and the UNED, in collaboration with the UPCT and the University of Valencia, was attended by noted researchers who presented the latest archaeological research carried out in some of the main amphitheaters of Roman Hispania, such as They are Carmona, Écija, Itálica, Segóbriga and, of course, Cartagena.In the same way, the indisputable problems involved in the recovery of this type of monumental building, exclusive of Roman spectacle architecture, were discussed, as well as the junctures of its insertion into the urban fabric of today's cities.Regarding the Roman Amphitheater of Cartagena, in addition to the particularities of the building that the latest excavations have revealed, the serious and rigorous commitment of the Cartagena City Council for its definitive recovery was highlighted.The articles collected in this new publication edited by the Municipal Archaeological Museum of Cartagena, are the following:· The amphitheaters of Hispania in the XXI century.
News and proposals for articulation in today's cities.
Chronicle and conclusions of the scientific meeting held in Cartagena, on October 4 and 5, 2018.J.
Pérez Ballester.· The Spectacula of Carmona and the origins of amphitheater architecture in Hispania.A.
Jiménez Hernández.· The amphitheaters of Écija and Itálica: similarities for the definition of a model in Baetica.A.
Jiménez Hernández and I.
Carrasco Gómez.· The Segobriga amphitheater.
Review of the entrances to the south stands from the outside.R.
Cebrián Fernández and I.
Hortelano Uceda.· The SE end of the minor axis of the Cartagena amphitheater.
New results.J.
Pérez Ballester, M.ª C.
Berrocal Caparrós and F.
Fernández Matallana.· Animalia in harena: animals in Roman shows.M.ª E.
Muñoz-Santos.· Wood sealing the past.
Study of the lid of a ceramic vase from the 2018 excavations in the Cartagena amphitheater.He sang Núñez and E.
Badal.· Malacofauna from the excavations of the Cartagena amphitheater (1971-1998).M.ª Sagrario Carrasco Porras.· Documentary contribution on the construction of the Cartagena bullring at the site known as "the amphitheater" in the mid-nineteenth century.M.
Martín Camino.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena