Provenance of some ancient marbles from El Pla de Ses Figueres (Cabrera, Balearic Islands, Spain)
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Aurelio Álvarez Pérez [3] [1] ; Isabel Rodá [3] [1] ; Mateu Riera Rullán ; Anna Gutiérrez García-Moreno [3] [1] ; Ana Domènech [3] [1] ; Hernando Royo Plumed [3] [2]
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[1] Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Barcelona, España
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[2] Universidad de Zaragoza
Universidad de Zaragoza
Zaragoza, España
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[3] Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica
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- Localización: Interdisciplinary studies on ancient stone: proceedings of the IX Association for the Study of Marbles and Other Stones in Antiquity (ASMOSIA) Conference (Tarragona 2009) / coord. por Anna Gutiérrez García-Moreno, María Pilar Lapuente Mercadal, Isabel Rodá, 2012, ISBN 978-84-939033-8-1, págs. 426-434
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Resumen
El Pla de ses Figueres is an archaeological site located next to the harbour of Cabrera, a small island of 1836 ha situated in the south of the Balearic Islands group. Several field surveys and archaeological excavations have brought into light the important human occupation of this place between the 5th and the 7th centuries AD. At the pieces of land excavated so far, a salting (food-processing) area, a possible workshop for the production of purple and a necropolis have been identified. An attempt to identify the provenance of a few marble fragments found during the latest excavations has been undertaken by means of direct and microscopic (petrographic) observation and cathodoluminisce (CL) analysis. The results point to the presence of both imported and Hispanic marbles at this small island: next to the Docimeion and grecco scritto mensae and basins, a shapless fragment of marble probably from the Almadén de la Plata, in sourthern Spain, has been identified.
