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The Minister of Education, Culture and Universities, Pedro Antonio Sanchez, mayor of Lorca, Francisco Jodar, and the regional director of Banco Sabadell-CAM, José Manuel Candela, today presented the exhibition "Sefarad Lights', which will show at the Centre Sefarad Israel of Madrid's rich archaeological documentation of the Jewish community of Lorca in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.

The exhibition consists of 75 pieces and originally aired in the Archaeological Museum of Murcia in 2009, can be visited in the center of Madrid from March 10 until May 30 and aims to contribute to the knowledge of that stage history of the town of Lorca, when it was the most important fortified center of the eastern border with the kingdom of Granada.

'Luces de Sefarad', with the sponsorship of the Banco Sabadell Foundation, consists mainly of the pieces found in late medieval Jewish quarter of Lorca (late fourteenth century), during excavations carried out between 2003 and 2006, and present the archaeological remains exhumed there and musealized in the Archaeological Park Castle Lorca, especially the synagogue, one of the most significant archaeological finds in recent years.

The exhibition also pays tribute to Jews expelled over 500 years ago with five spaces: The Jews in Spain;

The border town of Lorca;

The castellated Jewry of Lorca;

Jannukká, the festival of lights;

and The Synagogue of Lorca

The 75 pieces that make up the sample are recovered in the excavations of the Lorca Jewry itself, deposited in the Archaeological Museum of Lorca and others relating to the topic and the Jewish religion in Roman times, deposited and exhibited in the Archaeological Museum Municipal Eagles (one lucerne with the representation of the menorah on disk) and the Museum of the Roman Factory Salt Mazarrón (one amphoric plaster cap is imprinted equally as stamp 'menorah').

Among the pieces is the set of lamps of glass of the synagogue of Lorca, which were subjected to a long and careful restoration process, plus ceramic grave goods, metal parts (rings, lamps, thimbles) or decorative and architectural elements such as plasterwork and arches.

The exhibition is curated by the director of the Archaeological Museum of Lorca, Andrés Martínez Rodríguez, and the Technical Museum, Juana Garcia Ponce.

Source: CARM