The Head of a Teenager of the Iberian Aristocracy Carved 2,400 Years Ago and Reused by the Romans Appears in the 'Spanish Poppeya' of Albacete
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The piece found at the Libisosa site was reused by the Romans four centuries later to build a wall of the forum.
«Pretty archaeology follows me, wherever I go», says proud on the other side of the phone Héctor Uroz, after making known the finding in Libisosa (Lezuza, Albacete) of an «exceptional» Iberian sculpture , a stone head that must have been part of a funeral monument more than 2,000 years ago and later was used in the construction of a great «horreum» (granero) of the Roman colony.
A sculpture of head carved in limestone, dated about 2,400 years, was discovered in Libisosa, an archaeological park in the province of Albacete, Spain. The piece, which had its face destroyed, presents...
His face is missing. In fact, he lacks almost all his face: a blow, perhaps deliberate, took the features that would have allowed him to know who represented this limestone head, carved to almost natural size some 2,400 years ago. What has survived is the hairstyle — a braid collected in the [...]
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