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The City Council has enabled a new informative field access in the room that houses the Museum columns of San Vicente, El Hinojar, and the said Parish, with 2022 years old.
The Councillor for Culture of the City of Lorca, Sandra Martinez, reported that the city council has proceeded to the location of the miliaria column of the Augustan age was found last year in the bed of the river Guadalentin in a new explanatory scope booked in the room that leads to the Municipal Archaeological Museum.
This is an area in which they will give all the details of the roads of the Roman Empire, especially focusing on the famous "Via Augusta", which was the main road that passed through the region of Lorca.
The column in question is accompanied by two other similar features also found in our municipality.
This is the popular San Vicente column and discovered long ago in the place of fennel, in the hamlet of La Hoya, in all three cases we are talking about dating about the year 8 BC columns in the time of Emperor Octavian Augusto.
Together these three has set a fourth column was found on the road from La Fuensanta, and which dates back to the time of Emperor Diocletian (AD 305).
Sandra Martinez explained that the column in question was buried in the bed of Guadalentin River near the site of the Limerick and came to light because of the drag that occurred in the area the flood of September 2012. It was a private individual went to the Archaeological Museum responsible for reporting what happened, proceeding immediately to move the column to municipal facilities for proper conservation and cataloging.
Thus, it ruled that it was a milestone column the ancient Via Augusta.
It is made of stone, with 270 centimeters tall.
It is in a good condition, the better the rest of Roman columns found in the town of Lorca.
The column includes a Latin inscription on 6 lines allows us to date it.
Here the name of the emperor Octavian Augustus, charges which he held at the time of order fulfillment and the distance in miles from Eliocroca steps to Carthago Nova appears.
The column is dated 8 BC therefore has 2022 years old.
Be part of the original way of the Via Augusta, the most important Roman road that ran along and from the Pyrenees to Cadiz along the Mediterranean coast of the Iberian Peninsula and passing through the Valley Guadalentin.
This column stores discovered many similarities with the milestone of Augustus which was in the corner of the Plaza de San Vicente and now preserved in the Archaeological Museum.
Both would be consistent in the route of the Via Augusta.
The traveler will find the first from San Vicente to the indication outside the column now found.
Of the five milestones columns discovered in our town, this is the oldest near the San Vicente, which in better shape has been found and the largest.
The full registration of the column is:
IMP.CAESAR.DIVI.F
AVGVSTVS.COS.XI
TRIBVNIC.POTEST.XVI
IMP.XIIII.PONTVFEX
MAXVMVS
XXXXVIII
Its translation into Spanish is: The Emperor Caesar Augustus, son of the divine (Julius Caesar) Consul XI, tribunician power XVI, Empire XIIII, Pontifex Maximus, XXXXVIII miles.
Other discoveries in Lorca that date back to Roman times and have special interest are the paintings of the town of La Limerick (dating from the second century) and a figure representing Mercury, made of bronze, dating from the second century and that can currently be seen in the special exhibition entitled "Treasures restored", with which it has reopened the Archaeological Museum.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca
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