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Rodrigo Cortés Gómez

Rodrigo Cortés Gómez
Independent Researcher

Doctor of Philosophy

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Las estaciones viarias son una de las estructuras asociadas a la red viaria en época islámica cuyo estudio presenta un mayor número de interrogantes, especialmente en los territorios más occidentales del dar al-islam. Mientras que en los territorios más orientales bajo dominio islámico su existencia se puede rastrear desde época muy temprana a trav...
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Jamurs, pieces designed to finish off the minarets of mosques, are one of the elements of such buildings that have received less attention from the scholars. Little is known today of its meaning or function beyond its location at the highest points of the temples. The same term, used only in the Maghreb al-Aq̣ṣá, is not documented in medieval sourc...
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We present a new epigraphic scapula in Arabic language from a medieval silo excavated in San Pedro Alcántara street, located in the old town of Badajoz (southwestern Spain). Its own characteristics turn it into one of the most important findings in the excavation and make it enlarge the set of all the epigraphic scapulæ appeared in the Iberian Peni...
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Research the origin of the islamic Jamurs, considering the one in the museum of Zafra as a beginning point, and analysing also the metal construction and meaning.
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Published in Madrider Mitteilungen 62, 2021.
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After more than 60 years of archæological works in Munigua, a point has been reached where the density of available data allows us to approach the understanding of the city as a part of a wider territory. Therefore, a pilot project has been launched in 2020 which aims, through the implementation of a GIS, to merge and manage the large amount of col...
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La última de las ampliaciones islámicas de la Alcazaba de Badajoz se llevó a cabo durante el período almohade. Sin embargo, las evidencias arqueológicas, resultado de los trabajos llevados a cabo allí entre 2010 y 2012, han aportado informaciones que permiten establecer tres fases, dentro de aquel período.
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The last of the Islamic enlargements of the Alcazaba of Badajoz took place during the Almohad period. However, the archæological evidences, which are an outcome of the works carried out between 2010 and 2012, have provided new data which allow to establish three phases within that period.
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The border that will develop between the kingdoms of León and Castilla at the end of the twelfth century following the separation of the two kingdoms after the death of King Alfonso VII, which occurred in 1157, until its definitive reunification in the person of Fernando III in 1230, is one of the most unknown, less studied and even more interestin...
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The cathedral of Palencia (Castilla y León, Spain) is one of the most complex cathedral buidings from a constructive and archæological point of view in Spain and probably in Europe. Although the building in its current form dates back to the 14th century, it is the result of the refurbishment of, at least, three former ecclesiastic buildings. The o...
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Road stations are one of the structures associated with the road network in Islamic times the study of which presents a great number of questions, especially in the westernmost territories of the Dar al-Islam. Whereas in the most Eastern territories under Islamic rule its existence can be traced from very early times through written sources -in whi...
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Se presentan los resultados de los trabajos arqueológicos efectuados en el fuerte de S. Cristóbal de Badajoz con motivo de las obras de rehabilitación de 2013. Las estructuras encontradas y los materiales arqueológicos indican una ocupación calcolítica, además de un horizonte cultural del Bronce final y posi-bles ruinas de la ermita de S. Cristobal...
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Analysis of the excavations carried out throughout the rehabilitation of the church of Santa María del Castillo (Perales de Tajuña, Madrid, Spain)
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Analysis of an 10-11th century building documented during the excavations conducted in a private house located in central Toledo
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A study of the Early islamic pottery documented in Badajoz though the artifacts recovered in the excavation conducted in the Old Army Hospital, located in the Alcazaba, and other excavations carried out in the city
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Archaeological analysis of an object without context, which does not come from an excavation, but is kept in the Museo Pilarista of Zaragoza. Though it has been clasified as an Arabic production from the 11th Century, it is stated that, in spite of the fact that some of its features are typical of Islamic industrial arts, the Byzantine influences o...

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