Local quarries and ornamental stones used in architecture and epigraphy in Labitolosa (Conventus Caesaraugustanus, provincia Hispania citerior)

Authors

  • MIGUEL CISNEROS UNIVERSIDAD DE CANTABRIA
  • JOSEP GISBERT UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21071/aac.v30i.12436

Keywords:

Hispanic limestones, historical quarries of Aguinalíu, Santa Tecla, petrography, archaeometry, cost of the revetment of the Baths.

Abstract

Public buildings from Labitolosa underwent a significant process of monumentalization in the second half of the 1st century A.D. This paper focuses on the geological identification of the ornamental rocks used in the Curia and in Baths I. Analyses carried out indicate an exclusive use of Hispanic limestones: so-called Santa Tecla stone as well as limestone quarried in Aguinalíu where ancient pits have been found. Questions regarding the cost of the marble covering of the Baths are also examined.

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Published

2019-12-15

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CISNEROS, M., & GISBERT, J. (2019). Local quarries and ornamental stones used in architecture and epigraphy in Labitolosa (Conventus Caesaraugustanus, provincia Hispania citerior). Anales De Arquelogía Cordobesa, 30, 105–132. https://doi.org/10.21071/aac.v30i.12436

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