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The Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Environment has recovered a Roman stone with the inscription 'C · NVMISIVS · C' that was torn between the end of 2005 and the beginning of 2006 of one of the walls of the Monastery of San Ginés de la Jara, located In the Diputación cartagenera of El Beal.
Several months ago, technical staff from the General Directorate of Cultural Property and the Civil Guard received the first information on where this piece could be found.
During the last weeks new information was received that allowed the investigators to follow a reliable track on the whereabouts of the Roman piece.
Finally, technicians of Culture found this morning the piece that from at least the nineteenth century was embedded in one of the walls of the Monastery of San Ginés de la Jara.
During this morning the recovered Roman tombstone has been recovered, and specific machinery has been needed for its collection and transfer to the Archaeological Museum of Murcia so that it can be evaluated by the specialists and check their current state of conservation.
After its evaluation, the Ministry will proceed to its definitive deposit in the Municipal Archaeological Museum of Cartagena.
It is a gray limestone block containing a line where you can read 'C · NVMISIVS · C'.
This personage belongs to one of the best known families of the city of Cartago Nova of which eleven epígrafes are known.
From the paleography it is suggested that this is a text from the last decades of the first century BC
Source: CARM
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