Manufacture: modelled fired clay.Place of origin: Peñón de Salobreña.Function: probably religious.Culture and chronology: Roman-Hellenistic (late 3rd century–mid 1st century BCE)(1): Representation of a small head of a deity measuring 7.3 × 5.6 cm. The face is rounded, in the Hellenistic style, characterised by a small mouth, rounded chin, straight nose and eyes suggested by the...
Description: Fragmented disc, of which approximately two-thirds has been lost. Its reconstructed dimensions would be 10.5 cm in diameter. The piece is decorated with a bas-relief depicting a horseman riding a horse and raising a spear. The figure is wearing a short tunic fastened with a wide belt and a Montefortino-type helmet covering his head....
Description: oil lamp or lantern. 10.7 × 7.8 × 3.5 cm. Rounded body with a small, solid rounded handle. The top of the piece has a concave, smooth disc with a fuel hole and a smaller ventilation hole (oculus). The spout (rostrum) is of medium length, with an open, curved channel and a mixus (lighting...
Description: fragment of the upper part of a manual rotary mill (mola). 44 cm in diameter, 12 cm thick on the outside and 7 cm thick on the inside. There is a rectangular recess for inserting a wooden crank to facilitate turning. They consisted of an upper part (catilus) that rotated on top of a...
Description: stylus, stylus or Roman pencil. It is elongated, with a cylindrical-conical section that increases slightly towards the tip, where it tapers to a point. 8.3 × 0.8 cm.Manufacture: Made of bone, probably using the double-grooving technique.Function: the stylus was normally used to write on wooden tablets coated with beeswax (tabulae ceratae). The instrument usually...
Description: fragment of a jar with a globular body and thick walls, with two small mouldings on the outside. Belly diameter of 30 cm and a maximum preserved height of 70 cm.Manufacture: wheel-thrown. It has stamped decoration on the outside, with plant and zoomorphic motifs framed by trefoil arches.Function: Storage of liquids (oil, water) and...
