Hipótesis interpretativa de un sillar con relieves de Cartagena

Abstract

In the Municipal Archeologiacal Museum of Cartagena (Spain) (formerly Carthago Nova) there is a massive block of stone, discovered in the city in a place, ata a time and in circumstances which are unknown. On the front side there is a series of reliegs (human head, boat hollk, club, axe and cooking pot), which may be interpreted as pertaining to a scene connected with the catching of tuna and mackerel and their subsequent transformation into garum and other salted products. The block, whose decoration would have been completed in other similar ones, was probably part of a commemorative edifice or funeral monument in the old Roman colony.