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Archaeological plan of Lixus, incorporating the interpretation proposed here. (Drawing: Ricardo Mar.)
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Questo articolo riesamina il lavoro di M. Ponsich, pubblicato nel 1981, sul centro monumentale di Lixus (Morocco). Egli interpretava le strutture trovate negli scavi iniziati da Tarradell nel 1948 come un ínsieme di santuari tra loro legati e databili principalmente in epoca romana. Il nuovo esame dei resti conservati insieme con i più recenti scav...
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... 70 km south of Tangier a hill rises 85 m above sea level (FIG. 2). This is the site of Lixus, close to modern Larache (Tarradell, 1959). The remains found date from the Phoenician (eighth-sixth centuries BCE), Punic (fifth-third centuries BCE), Mauretanian (second century BCE-CE 50), Roman (first-sixth centuries CE) and Islamic (twelfth-fifteenth centuries CE) periods. Excavations were carried out in ...
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... abundant in Morocco and particularly in Lixus (Piccot-Boube, 1960;Boube-Piccot, 1975: nos. 63-74), fits neatly into this picture. The examples from Lixus were found in burnt levels in the area of the Houses of Mars and Rhea and of Helios (so-called because of their mosaics), which are some distance from the palace and in a higher part of the site (FIG. 2: 'Roman Houses'). None the less, the couches, tables and bronze candelabra that were found there would have been appropriate in the setting of the interior of the palatial residence described here, and in fact may have been found in secondary contexts. Only the mask of Oceanus (Boube-Piccot, 1969: 307-9) definitely comes from the palace area and dates, ...
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... Jodin 1987. 165 AraneguíGazcó -Mar 2009.166 Euzennat -Hallier 1986;Coltelloni-Trannoy 2002, 99. ...
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... 54-58), conformaron un conjunto palacial de aprox. 7000 m 2 de superficie (Aranegui Gascó y Mar Medina, 2009). Pese a las reticencias iniciales de algunos estudiosos, esta interpretación de los datos publicados hasta la fecha parece haber sido aceptada de facto (Mugnai, 2018, p. 168 La arqueología desarrollada en el Maghreb occidental, históricamente marcada por el interés de la administración colonial francesa en las fases romanas, no ha hallado (ni buscado) hasta ahora otras evidencias de arquitectura palacial númida o mauritana en fechas precedentes a Juba II. ...
El palacio es a la vez un tipo de edificio y una alegoría política. La definitiva importación al Mediterráneo Occidental de este tipo arquitectónico y de su lenguaje simbólico se consumó al tiempo que la República romana se transformaba en un Imperio. Pero antes de estos hechos hubo otras experimentaciones con elementos propios de la arquitectura palacial, tanto en ámbito público como privado, en Italia, Sicilia, en el Maghreb occidental y en la península ibérica. En este artículo se propone una definición razonada del término palacio que sirva para su uso analítico, se discute sobre el rol jugado por las grandes poleis mediterráneas, en especial Cartago, en la difusión de estos edificios y se aboga por considerar a las monarquías norteafricanas, aún no suficientemente atendidas por la investigación, como importantes vectores de transmisión de este tipo de arquitectura en el Mediterráneo occidental.
... This is reflected in the almost total lack of marble decoration at Lixus: for instance, in the 'quartier des temples' only an architrave made of Proconnesian marble has survived. 4 Aranegui and Mar 2009; the same observations are repeated in Aranegui 2012. 5 The authors reject the identification of this building as a temple, arguing that no trace of the podium exists (245; Aranegui and Mar 2009, 48-49). ...
The architectural decoration of Volubilis, Banasa, Sala and Lixus - NICCOLÒ MUGNAI, ARCHITECTURAL DECORATION AND URBAN HISTORY IN MAURETANIA TINGITANA (Mediterranean Archaeology Studies 1; Edizioni Quasar di Severino Tognon s.r.l., Rome 2018). Pp. 410, figs. 93, pls. 43, plans 23. ISBN 978-88-7140-853-8. EUR 40. - Volume 32 - Carmen Aranegui Gascó
... 27 Ponsich 1981. 28 Aranegui -Mar 2009. 29 Gras 1992, pp. ...
... 187-191. 49 Aranegui -Mar 2009. 50 Wallace-Hadrill 1994. ...
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... Despite a few bureaucratic problems, several projects went ahead. The most important was the involvement of Spanish archaeologists in the excavation of Lixus from 1995 (AAVV 2001(AAVV , 2005(AAVV , 2010Aranegui and Mar 2009). ...
This article analyses the archaeology in the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco throughout its history. After a historical background of the nature and development of Spanish colonialism in North Africa, information about the archaeology in the first years of the Spanish Protectorate in North Morocco are given, both before and after the Civil War. The academic and political manoeuvres that brought a bright young archaeologist to Tétouan, Miguel Tarradell Mateu (or Miquel Tarradell i Mateu, in Catalan), is then discussed. Tarradell’s main successes for the understanding of the historical development of the area up to the end of the Roman period will be contrasted with the way Tarradell felt about living in Africa. The article concludes with a discussion of events after decolonisation and a discussion of the nature of Spanish colonialism in North Morocco and of Spanish academia. The aim of this article, therefore, is not to detail the scientific discussions taking place about interpretation of the past, but the social, political and economic context in which these took place.
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