The archeological site of Segobriga Cuenca hass
June 1st, 2010
The archeological site of Segobriga (Cuenca) has expanded its space to visitors with the opening of the circus and necropolis.
The bells of excavations carried out between 2004 and 2008 allowed to exhume the remains of the circus, shows a building careers for horse-drawn carriages, and a necropolis with tombs of incineration, which was destroyed for new construction circus , informed the Board news release.
The best preserved in the circus is the north wall of the bleachers, and, sto credits, where you can see the foundation of the stands. It was built in the second half of the second century AD on the area previously occupied an extensive necropolis.
This necropolis is partially known but it has been excavated an area of over 1,800 square meters. It was probably the largest existing Segobriga around in the first and second centuries, and, tera gold, was formed by a combination of incineration graves marked with inscriptions.
A site "live"
The director general of Cultural Heritage, Luis Martinez, who today visited the new space be opened to coincide with the Day of Museums, Segobriga stressed that "a live and ongoing research field, which perfectly reflect the principles of protection of heritage and environmental protection advocated by, sto credits, the Government of Castilla-La Mancha.
Excavations at the circus have documented a little over two thirds of the building, which are kept out six blocks and large sections of the stands side, but, as I explain the general director "was not finished." "We know it started in a time of economic boom and as the crisis also affected in Roman times, not its completion," he added.
But that does not conclude the building does not mean that can not be held races. In fact, in the circus of the city of Segobriga simultaneous release could take six cars to compete in a track 400 meters long and 74 meters wide.
For its part, the necropolis was organized from a main street remained blinded when the whole area was reoccupied by the circus. Because of that occupation for leisure artificial graves were cleared, removing most of the funeral urns and stelae for pinpoint your location, some of which have been recovered from the rubble of the work.
A fact that makes the necropolis of Segobriga in "exceptional" qualify as the director of the Park, Rosario Cebrian, is the preservation in situ of two epigraphic contrails can be seen in the same place they occupied in the issue. A Caecilius dedicated to Victor, who presented at the bottom of the figure in profile with a lion head confronted the viewer, and another dedicated for the same to his mother, Matira.
Remains found as "speak for themselves"
Over 40,000 people have visited over the year 2010 the archeological site of Segobriga attracted to the remains of a Roman city "speak for themselves." So I pointed the director, noting that "any visitor who approaches Segobriga will be able to sit in the stands where it did a Roman 2,000 years ago, walking the same streets and spaces, or watch the forum and all administrative buildings" .
The opening of the circus and necropolis forced to establish a security system by placingrailings that surround the area visited. Panels have been installed with the information signaling of new spaces and, finally, has placed a copy of the funeral stele Iucunda, dead at age 16 and was found in this necropolis. His presence, no doubt, facilitate the visitor's understanding of the excavated area.
