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On Thursday, March 6, at 18.30 hours, will be the unveiling of a statue of the Roman Emperor Augustus in the newly remodeled Plaza de San Francisco, in Cartagena.
This is a reproduction of white marble, 1:1 scale sculpture found a few meters in Adarve street excavations, in December 2002, and chaired the Roman Curia Cartagonova.
This is the City Roman references include the most significant public spaces of the old Cartagonova, as was his forum, the center of the Roman town, within which is the Plaza de San Francisco.
The completed refurbishment of the square has been the occasion to incorporate this element in one end.
L of reply was made ​​by Jorge Aznar, a sculptor known around town as the author Sailor replacement Town Hall.
The image has been placed on a pedestal in a corner of the square, and the first Roman sculpture that incorporates the urban landscape of the Old Town.
Beside Augusto have also placed two large stone cubes showing the Roman City and the Roman Forum, with the idea that form the beginning of the tour in the Roman Cartagena.
The mayor, Pilar Barreiro, accompanied by members of the Municipal Corporation, will be responsible for discovering the replica, which coincides with the worldwide celebration of the two thousandth anniversary of the death of the Roman emperor.
Toga capite VELATO
The sculpture, original of which is in the Museum of the Roman Theatre, is called Togado Capite Velato.
Is larger natural and chaired the curia or meeting room located in the local Senate of the Roman Forum Carthago Nova.
Represents a rack masculine image, dress tunic with toga raised over head.
The iconographic sculpture that our model reproduces very closely the Labicana Augusto de la route, which was used especially in the early imperial age to represent the emperor as Pontifex Maximus.
The forum Carthago Nova was located in the central area of the village, was the administrative, commercial and religious center of the city, his remains overlap with the current Plaza San Francisco.
The Square Forum was chaired at its northern end by the Capitoline temple, with a raised podium with respect to the square, emphasizing the religious sphere in front of the earthly and everyday.
On the opposite side, a row of shops or tabernae, closed it, now drawn on the new paving of the square.
In the back of the tabernae a double porch with him, at the southeast corner of the Forum, a religious building interpreted as a headquarters Augustal College, where priests prepare the ceremonies of the imperial cult was erected started, of these buildings are preserved today in the Augusteum.
In the northern corner of the square the Curia, seat of municipal government where the local senate met to deal with the administrative affairs of the colony, much of its structure is preserved under the current Health Center Adarve street was built.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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