Contexto cerámico de vajilla de mesa del nivel de abandono de las termas públicas de Cástulo (Linares, Jaén)

  1. Bautista Ceprián del Castillo
  2. Marcelo Castro López
  3. Margarita Orfila Pons
  4. David Jesús Parras Guijarro
  5. David Expósito Mangas
Journal:
Ex Officina Hispana : cuadernos de la SECAH

ISSN: 2255-5560

Year of publication: 2022

Issue Title: Cerámica en Hispania (siglos II a VII d.C.) Contextos estratigráficos entre el Atlántico y el Mediterráneo

Issue: 5

Pages: 95-108

Type: Article

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Abstract

At the beginning of 2009, an archaeological activity was carried out to support the restoration of the public roman baths in the Ibero-Roman city of Cástulo, which allowed the excavation of two caldaria and a propigneum of the building in their entirety. The work carried out made it possible to document the existence of a stratum with an abundance of small coals, directly on the ground of said spaces, a horizon that is interpreted as the last level of use/abandonment of the roman bath. At this sedimentary level, an interesting set of fine tableware was exhumed, consisting mainly of Terra Sigillata HispánicaTardía Meridional (TSHTM), Terra Sigillata Africana type D (ARSWD) and, to a lesser extent, Terra Sigillata Hispánica Tardía (TSHT). The study of this ceramic context, together with the analysis of other archaeological materials, such as numismatics, provides information that, contrasted, in turn, with the radiocarbon dates obtained, allows determining the abandonment of this complex in the first half of the 5th AD.