Resumen de The marble repertoire of the Roman villa of Cornelius (Valencia, Spain)

Rosa Albiach Descals, Elisa García Prósper, Aquilino Gallego Ubeda

• The rural villa of "Publius Cornelius Iunianus" stood near the Via Augusta, 10 km from the city of Saetabis, and was devoted to the production and processing of "Saetabense" linen, whose high quality made it worthy of note in classical sources. The 2004 archaeological excavations unearthed the main parts of practically all the villa: the "pars urbana", the "pars rustica" and the "pars fructuaria", inhabited from the middle of the 1st century AD, to the 5th century. Numerous pieces and fragments of ornamental marble were discovered within the rooms themselves in destruction layers, or recycled into latter building work. The most common material for the architectural and epigraphic elements was Buixcarró or "Seatabitanum marmor" used in wellow, pink and white colour tones, extracted from quarries based around Barxeta, a village 22 km away. Furthermore, imported sculptures in white marble of Greek, Italic and Hispanic origin were found at the site.