MARQ excavations

LUCENTUM (TOSSAL DE MANISES, ALICANTE).)

 

Project manager


Manuel H. Olcina Donénech
[email protected]
Tel.: 965149000

 

ProjectArchaeological action project (Tossal de Manises, Alicante) 2013.

Promoter: Diputación de Alicante - MARQ

DirectorsManuel Olcina Doménech (MARQ), Rafael Pérez Jiménez (Architecture Area), Eva Tendero Porras (CV-MARQ Foundation) and Antonio Guilabert Mas (CV-MARQ Foundation).

This action has the authorisation of the Consellería de Cultura i Esport de la Generalitat Valenciana. File 2013/0259-A.

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The MARQ will start on 27 June a new excavation campaign at the archaeological site of the Tossal de Manisessite of the ancient Roman city of Lucentum. The work will be carried out in rooms in sectors B and B-C of the site, on its southeast side, focusing on the levels prior to the foundation of the Roman municipality, especially on the destruction detected in a large part of the enclave during the Second Punic War, which pitted Rome against Carthage.

The excavation work will be carried out over the course of a month, under the direction of Manuel Olcina Doménech, Rafael Pérez Jiménez, Eva Tendero Porras and Antonio Guilabert Mas, from the MARQ and the Department of Architecture of the Provincial Council of Alicante, who will also be responsible for the consolidation and enhancement of the findings once the field work has been completed.

This campaign will involve 23 university graduates and students, as volunteer collaborators, who will carry out both excavation and laboratory work. All these activities will be carried out in a site open to the public, next to the transit areas, so that visitors can see how an archaeological intervention takes place during their visit.

The Tossal de Manises, which has been excavated discontinuously since the 18th century, is today a point of reference in studies of the period between the landing of Rome and Carthage on peninsular soil and the Islamisation of the territory. Its opening to the public in 1998 was also a milestone in the dissemination of archaeological heritage and bringing archaeology closer to society, as endorsed by its selection for the final of the Telefonica Ability Awards in 2012.

 


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12 November, 2010

VISIT TO THE MARQ

The illustrator Roberto Innocenti, Andersen Award 2008 -considered the Oscars of Illustration-, visited the MARQ last Friday 12th November, on the occasion of his stay in Alicante.

12 November, 2010

INTERIOR DESIGN EXHIBITION

INTERIOR DESIGN EXHIBITION. VALENCIAN COMMUNITY 2000 - 2010
MODUS VIVENDI DAYS
Opening on 12 November at 19:00h, curated by Marcelo Leslabay.

 BROCHURE

5 November, 2010

OPENING. EXHIBITION IN MONFORTE DEL CID

EXHIBITION: THE IBERIAN WARRIOR OF MONFORTE DEL CID.

FRIDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2010 A 20.00 h.  Outbuildings of the future Archaeological Museum of Monforte del Cid. Plaza Bonifacio Amorós nº 10. Monforte del Cid. Alicante.

5 November, 2010

CYCLE OF CONFERENCES MURO

CYCLE OF CONFERENCES

"The hunter-gatherer settlement of Cova Beneito".

FRIDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2010 At 20.15 h. Sala "Pintor Jover" of the Cultural Centre of Muro by Dr. ELlSA MARIA DOMÉNECH FAUS Archaeologist of the Town Hall of Muro.

4 November, 2010

GREEN BOOK PRESENTATION

Presentation of the GREEN PAPER. National Plan for the Protection of Spanish Cultural Heritage. 
At 18:00 in the MARQ auditorium.

27 October, 2010

ACT OF HOMAGE TO Dr. Hermanfrid Schubart


On the 27th of October at 18:00 in the auditorium of the MARQ will take place in the MARQ, the act of homage to the figure of Dr. D. Hermanfrid Schubart, prestigious researcher of the prehistory and protohistory of the Iberian Peninsula and prominent member of the German Archaeological Institute of Madrid, of which he was director.

 

22 October, 2010

SCHOLARSHIPS AT THE MARQ

Call for two training grants in Museum Restoration for the Provincial Archaeological Museum.
The purpose of this public call is to award two training grants in Museum Restoration for graduates in Fine Arts with the Intensification Line in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage and Graduates of the School of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, for the MARQ, Alicante Archaeological Museum.

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14 October, 2010

SERIES OF CONFERENCES

LECTURE BY JOSEP PADRO PARCERISA ON EGYPTIAN ARTEFACTS FOUND IN ANCIENT HISPANIA

Cycle of conferences on the temporary exhibition "The enigma of the mummy". Next 14th October at 19:00h in the MARQ auditorium.

11 October, 2010

VISIT TO MARQ

The MARQ receives the visit of the delegation of the Directorate of Culture and Heritage of the Languedoc-Roussillon Region

9 October, 2010

CULTURE PRIZE

The Calp Town Council, through its Advisory Council of Decorations, Honours and Distinctions, has decided to award the Vila de Calp 9 d'Octubre Culture Award to the Archaeological Research Project that the Archaeological Museum of Alicante (MARQ) has been developing for six years at the site of the medieval town of Ifach.

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