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Excavation work began last January in the neighborhood of the Roman Forum still obtained significant results.
Archaeologists continue to advance in the work of recovery Carthagonova Roman road and wall paintings found in the Atrium Building.
The project is the result of the agreement that the Repsol and the city of Cartagena, Foundation through Cartagena Port of Cultures, signed to finance the digging.
One of the main jobs of those who are dealing archaeologists is excavating the Roman road which borders both the north and the building of Spa Facilities I. century were also located the remains of several streets or roads prior to the construction of this set, dated at different times of the II-I centuries BC
The team is repairing the original quarry tiled walkway century BC using the original pieces recovered during the excavation process and using the same technique that was built in 54 BC
PAINTINGS OF CATERING
On the other hand, continue to be discovered mural cloths important in decorating the rooms in the Atrium Building.
The team of conservation-restoration, with several archaeologists, focus on your recovery and that are conserved within the banquet rooms.
In one of these rooms, and have withdrawn the different soil layers associated with the collapse of the upper floor of the building with its corresponding pictorial decoration.
Sorry, there are only paints the walls that compartmentalize the ground floor and fell on the floor of the room, after a fire in the late third century ruined building, which we are the beams and planks of wood carbonized above ground.
The most spectacular paint fragments have been discovered in the room closing the complex to the north.
Features an exceptional state of preservation, which is allowing save paint upstairs in large fragments.
After the fire the building, decorative cloths sliding over the walls of the ground floor or fell in large sheets like these days that restaurateurs are recovering.
One of them seems to correspond to an inner wall of the first floor, where alternating large decorative panels painted in red, silhouetted by blue bands that make the separation with interpaneles.
The interpaneles are rectilinear pictures, much narrower than the others, where on a black background decorated with vertical development consisting of a plant stem with ribbons and several birds in the plumage with fine white lines drawn subtly warns available.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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