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Research shows through a dedication to Caralla, the Roman city of Cartagena was booming longer than previously thought.
The Mayor and the Minister of Tourism knew first hand today these paintings
Experts working in the neighborhood of the Roman Forum have discovered a series of paintings that are unique in Spain because of its quality and conservation.
These two painted late first century have been located in excavations Muses Atrium Building.
Another element of great value to be found is a dedication to the emperor Caracalla showing that the strength of the city in Roman times lasted much longer than previously thought.
The mayor, Pilar Barreiro, and the Minister of Industry and Tourism, Juan Carlos Ruiz, knew firsthand these findings during his visit Friday to the neighborhood of the Roman Forum, the deputy director of Personnel and Organization Repsol refinery in tailings, Andrés González, along with representatives of the municipality in Tourism and archaeologists themselves as M ª José Madrid.
In the excavation result of the agreement between the city of Cartagena and the Repsol Foundation, archaeologists have identified so far Calliope, with garland in her hair and in her right hand rulus, alluding to epic poetry and Terpsichore, muse representative Dance.
In addition, much more fragmented, has been localized part of the bust of a third yet unidentified muse and a lyre that Apollo could be himself, who is often part of this decorative program, as happens in the House of the Muses of Ostia .
Archaeologists are still working to see if more paintings in this series in which it was usual to represent the nine muses exist.
The paintings have appeared in class 14, one of the rooms that were compartmentalized building large banquet halls in the late first century this small room of about 15 m2, open to the atrium and connected to a small opening with The next room has several sections preserved in original paint and crumbling walls is a mural located on the cool Provincial Style IV, dating from the late-second-century beginnings I.
On red panel, several boxes are 70 inches high by 45 wide defined within which are painted representations of the muses of the arts.
On the opposite side of this same old banquet hall end, we have identified another small outbuilding which has picked up a decorative ensemble whose importance lies in the discovery of a painted text alluding to the Emperor Caracalla, who ruled in the third century.
This data provides insight using this ceremonial building and suggests that the Roman Cartagena was a booming time for much thought until now historians city.
The inscription so far incomplete, Antonino Pio urelio Aug reads. Imperial name and titulary of Caracalla was Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus Pius.
The text was on the top of a painting with geometric black red and white colors.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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