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The latest findings and most important archaeological interventions that have taken place in Cartagena and the surrounding area during the past year, can be known through 8 of the annual magazine 'Mastia', published by the Municipal Archaeological Museum Enrique Escudero de Castro and today by the director, Maria Comas, and the councilman of Culture, Rosario Montero.
The publication includes five articles written by experts in the field, whose theme focuses on the origins of arqueominería in the region, particularly in Mazarrón, the late Roman period to the excavations of the University District, the trousseau items from the eastern necropolis Carthago Spartaria and iconographic study of funerary objects from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries of the church of Santa Maria the old.
Rosario Montero stressed the theme of the story that closes the magazine, on the mosaic of the Gorgon or Medusa, which is the first 'opus tessellatum Bichrome' of the city of Carthago Nova, rescued in a lot of Duke Street, also becoming the home of the new issue of Mastia.
We must not lose sight that this publication has become a reference for students of archeology, not only in Cartagena but other parts of Spain with which museums have come into contact Montero stressed.
In this line, the City Council, in collaboration with the Directorate General of Fine Arts of the Autonomous Region, has published a Manual of Basic Drawing Materials Aqueológicos, Soledad Pérez Cuadrado work, aimed at facilitating the work of researchers and be a practical guide college students, resolving questions about how to translate into a technical drawing archaeological pieces to be found in the deposits.
Both the journal and the manual were published 500 copies are available in the Municipal Archaeological Museum.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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