Under the name "Romans against Romans. Sertorius and the Civil Wars in south-eastern Hispania".MARQ's new exhibition, the new MARQ exhibition encompasses the main enclaves and strongholds of the Sertorian Wars located in Alicante and analyses the traces of this conflict in the Iberian Peninsula during the second decade of the 1st century BC.
The second vice-president and deputy for Culture, César Augusto Asencioinaugurated this morning at the Library of the museum, together with the managing director of MARQ, José Alberto Cortésthe technical director, Manuel Olcinathe commissioner, Feliciana Sala and the Director of the University Research Institute in Archaeology and Historical Heritage, Sonia GutiérrezThis touring exhibition, produced by the University of AlicanteThe University Institute for Research in Archaeology and Historical Heritage and the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.
Asencio has indicated that "this exhibition, which gathers new and revealing data thanks to a research project carried out by the University of Alicante, can be seen at the MARQ for the next two months and then begins a travelling period through the municipalities of the province.".
This new exhibition proposal places a special emphasis on the excavations carried out in 2010 at the site of The Tossal de La Cala in Benidorm. It is a "castellum ex novo where an unusual quantity of Italic pottery, amphorae, cooking utensils and oil lamps were found, in addition to the metal objects of the Roman armies. Likewise, the epigraphs found on various ceramics denote the presence of Iberian troops in the fort.
In addition, the provincial museum contributes to the exhibition with a set of 35 archaeological pieces from La Cala, as well as a number of objects found at the Iberian HallThe fragment of a tree felling saw, unique in Hispania, and a large dish with fish decoration and a fragment painted with a scene of warriors.
