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The Roman Theatre Museum will host this Friday, November 20, at 20.00 hours, the book presentation of Cartagena archaeologist, Alejandro Quevedo, Ceramic Contexts and Urban Transformations in Carthago Nova (S. II-third century AD).
The volume is part of an international monographic collection published in Oxford, dedicated to the Roman pottery in the Mediterranean.
The work, the result of a doctoral thesis analyzes one of the lesser known periods, situated between the splendor of Republican and Augustan age Roman city, and the dynamic phases of late period.
The study was conducted on over 10,000 sherds appeared in urban excavations in the last thirty years.
This is one of the few existing references to know the life of the city at that time, given the absence of written and epigraphic sources.
In the presentation ceremony attended by the Councillor for Culture and Heritage area, Ricardo Segado, director of the Museum of the Roman Theatre in Cartagena, Elena Ruiz Valderas, Professor of Archaeology at the University of Murcia, Sebastian Ramallo, the manager of the Foundation Cajamurcia, Pascual Martinez, Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the University of Alicante, Sonia Guierrez, and author, currently a researcher of the Higher Council for Scientific Research in the Spanish School of History and Archaeology in Rome, Alejandro Quevedo itself.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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