White marble, lion's skin. Hercules returns after 2000 years
Among the Roman ruins a bust sculpted by an artist imperial-era high
Pinuccio Saba and Emanuele Fancellu
PORTO TORRES. When the land is a ticked off a smart piece of white marble, archaeologists and workers have rubbed my eyes. In recent days, the excavation area of \u200b\u200bVia delle Terme led by scientific director Antoinette Boninu, discoveries follow one another with relentless pace, but the one yesterday was extraordinary. A bust of Hercules. 125 cm tall, white marble, without the head and upper limb - is only a piece of the right arm up to the biceps - with the broken right leg at the groin and the left just above the knee. A product that brings artists of age classical high-level, dating to a first reading to the first century after Christ, or however high-imperial Roman age, which are easy to read recurring items in all the statuary that characterizes this mythological figure with the legs of Leontes, the mantle that covers the shoulders of the statue made by the lion that killed the son of Jupiter in one of his twelve labors. The subject is therefore immediately became clear: Hercules, divine creature of the element of water, the hero is closely related to travel, to trade. A recurring figure in the topography of the area of \u200b\u200bthe north-west of Sardinia, with sites such as the Herculis Insula (Asinara) and the station For Herculem, just near the ancient Turris Libisonis. "This bust of Hercules, the Herakles always associated Asinara island and the city of Libisonis Turris is a very significant find, very important for the city's history," says scientific coordinator of the excavation Antonio Pandolfi. A discovery that Herculean torso, which should help to shed light on understanding of the complex, as explained more Antonella Pandolfi: "This Hercules may be part of a group of sculptures and is the first statue found in Porto Torres in stratigraphic context, emerged however, between the material shows in combination with other architectural elements such as a column more than three feet, also in white marble, with beautiful flute, a Corinthian capital of the same material, the fragment of another column frame and smooth gray marble. " The excavation began in Via delle Terme in 2006 and even then shot up a mosaic with a salutation that is unique to Sardinia.
After two years of interruption, the archaeological investigation was resumed a few weeks ago, bringing to light an important structural unit: A building divided into several rooms and paved with mosaics. The complex was to become part a large open space or porch, next to which the workers of the Restoration Sini, led by archaeologists Enrico Petruzzi and Daniela Deriu and Franco Usai detector, have found the bust of Hercules. The statue - recovered, carefully sealed and protected under the watchful eye of head coach yard at Porto Torres, Franco Satta - was then transported to the restoration of Li Punti, escorted by the police for the protection of core assets, led by Captain Gian Filippo Manconi. In the excavation went the mayor of Porto Torres, Luciano Mura, who, excited by the discovery, he reiterated that the City Turritano had already started an argument with the former Regional Council for the Protection of the area, on the basis of the findings made in 2006. "These findings - has said - showed that this area had a monumental considerable value, and not less than Tuvixeddu. There is now a need for a development that can only be done with special measures of the region with which we hope to resume dialogue. "
(May 21, 2009)
Among the Roman ruins a bust sculpted by an artist imperial-era high
Pinuccio Saba and Emanuele Fancellu
PORTO TORRES. When the land is a ticked off a smart piece of white marble, archaeologists and workers have rubbed my eyes. In recent days, the excavation area of \u200b\u200bVia delle Terme led by scientific director Antoinette Boninu, discoveries follow one another with relentless pace, but the one yesterday was extraordinary. A bust of Hercules. 125 cm tall, white marble, without the head and upper limb - is only a piece of the right arm up to the biceps - with the broken right leg at the groin and the left just above the knee. A product that brings artists of age classical high-level, dating to a first reading to the first century after Christ, or however high-imperial Roman age, which are easy to read recurring items in all the statuary that characterizes this mythological figure with the legs of Leontes, the mantle that covers the shoulders of the statue made by the lion that killed the son of Jupiter in one of his twelve labors. The subject is therefore immediately became clear: Hercules, divine creature of the element of water, the hero is closely related to travel, to trade. A recurring figure in the topography of the area of \u200b\u200bthe north-west of Sardinia, with sites such as the Herculis Insula (Asinara) and the station For Herculem, just near the ancient Turris Libisonis. "This bust of Hercules, the Herakles always associated Asinara island and the city of Libisonis Turris is a very significant find, very important for the city's history," says scientific coordinator of the excavation Antonio Pandolfi. A discovery that Herculean torso, which should help to shed light on understanding of the complex, as explained more Antonella Pandolfi: "This Hercules may be part of a group of sculptures and is the first statue found in Porto Torres in stratigraphic context, emerged however, between the material shows in combination with other architectural elements such as a column more than three feet, also in white marble, with beautiful flute, a Corinthian capital of the same material, the fragment of another column frame and smooth gray marble. " The excavation began in Via delle Terme in 2006 and even then shot up a mosaic with a salutation that is unique to Sardinia.
After two years of interruption, the archaeological investigation was resumed a few weeks ago, bringing to light an important structural unit: A building divided into several rooms and paved with mosaics. The complex was to become part a large open space or porch, next to which the workers of the Restoration Sini, led by archaeologists Enrico Petruzzi and Daniela Deriu and Franco Usai detector, have found the bust of Hercules. The statue - recovered, carefully sealed and protected under the watchful eye of head coach yard at Porto Torres, Franco Satta - was then transported to the restoration of Li Punti, escorted by the police for the protection of core assets, led by Captain Gian Filippo Manconi. In the excavation went the mayor of Porto Torres, Luciano Mura, who, excited by the discovery, he reiterated that the City Turritano had already started an argument with the former Regional Council for the Protection of the area, on the basis of the findings made in 2006. "These findings - has said - showed that this area had a monumental considerable value, and not less than Tuvixeddu. There is now a need for a development that can only be done with special measures of the region with which we hope to resume dialogue. "
(May 21, 2009)
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