The Archaeological Museum of Alicante has collaborated with the Aspe Municipal History Museum in the recovery of its cultural heritage through the temporary cession, for a period of three years, of 23 pieces from local archaeological sites which form part of the Alicante complex's collection. The aim of this initiative is to completing and renewing the expository discourse of the new rooms of the aspense centre dedicated to the archaeologist Nieves Roselló.
The President of the Alicante Provincial Council Luisa Pastor inaugurated this space yesterday, accompanied by the mayor of the locality Manuel Díezthe director of MARQ Manuel Olcina and the director of the Historical Museum of Aspe María Berná. The event was also attended by relatives of the archaeologist, provincial deputies and members of the municipal corporation.
Among the pieces on loan from the Alicante museum, which span chronologically from prehistoric to medieval times.The ceramic vesselsa clay loom weightsome bone artefacts and various sickle teeth flint carvings from the Bronze Age from La Horna and Tabayáas well as a lot of pieces from the medieval Islamic period of the River Castle which formed part of the daily life of the inhabitants of the Almohad fortress and were used for cooking, serving food and storing water. One of the most outstanding features of this ensemble is a painted jug, a flask or small glazed bottle in green, a basin for the presentation and consumption of food or a lampamong other objects.
Pastor commented that the collaboration between the two museum complexes has made it possible to renew the permanent exhibition of Aspe's archaeological collection, improving and extending its exhibition discourse and highlighting the rich heritage of the municipality.. In additionas specified by the President, The new rooms bear the name of a distinguished archaeologist from Aspas who dedicated herself to the study of different archaeological sites and collections in the province and to whom we owe part of the historical legacy that has survived to the present day.
The MARQ has also contributed to the conservation and staging of Aspe's local heritage with the restoration of more than thirty pieces The museum has also provided technical advice and graphic and documentary material. It has also provided technical advice and graphic and documentary material.
For years the Alicante centre has been linked to archaeological research and the dissemination of Aspe's cultural legacy, guarding a large part of the materials resulting from the excavations carried out at sites in the locality. The Castillo del Río and the Visigothic Necropolis of Vistalegre are some of the sites that Nieves Roselló, who was in charge of the excavation of the the MARQ dedicated a posthumous tribute in 2012 with the publication of their works that have contributed to the knowledge of the Late Roman funerary world in Medio Vinalopó.
Homage to Nieves Roselló Cremades
The archaeologist Nieves Roselló gives her name to the new rooms of the museum in Aspe. Roselló Cremades was born in Aspe in 1968, where she died in 2010. In this municipality she did her first studies and, later, graduated in History from the University of Alicante.specialising in archaeology. He went to scholar and collaborator at the Provincial Archaeological Museum for years, where he devoted himself to the study of different archaeological sites and collections.
He participated in the excavations of the Illeta dels Banyets, the Castillo del Río and the Rábita de Guardamar, while in his town he directed the work on the late Roman and Visigothic necropolis of Vistalegre, disseminating its results in different scientific publications.
