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Our civilization before the Plaza Roma in Europe] | The exhibition will remain open until July 1 and aims to show visitors how these ancient people lived The exhibition devotes special attention to ceramics and metallurgy |
The Mayor of Murcia, Miguel Angel House, inaugurated this morning the Iberians exposure.
Our civilization before Rome, in a tent in the square in Europe.
The event was attended Victor Guardiola, Delegate General of La Caixa in Murcia and Alicante, Lluis Reverter, Secretary General of the Fundación La Caixa, and Lluis Batista, Commissioner of the Exhibition.
The exhibition "Iberians: princes, warriors and artisans' created with the aim of showing the public an updated view of the Iberian world.
Through scientific reproductions of works of art and excavation of videos, models, photographs and illustrations, is to move the visitor to the ancient world, showing how everyday life was like in the Iberian settlements, relations with the settlers, the importance of agriculture, pottery, metallurgy and trade.
Invite you to discover the mysteries of the Iberian language and introduce in the rituals and beliefs about the afterlife.
Iberians exposure.
Our civilization before Rome presents scientific reproductions of pieces in this museum as a resource ancient culture, and shows various scenes that acclimate scenes of everyday life in an Iberian settlement and are distributed from the six fields in the sample: the historical, military organization and forms of government, daily life, writing and trade, urban planning and architecture, religion and funerary rites.
The history of the Iberian culture starts at the end of the sixth century BC with the emergence of an aristocracy of warrior princes who built cities, shrines and monumental tombs, promoted trade and writing and created their own art forms.
It ends in the first century BC, when the Iberians were absorbed by the political and cultural power of Rome.
This exhibition aims to contribute to make known his legacy.
The exhibition will be open from 6 June to 1 July in the tent set up in Santo Domingo.
Who Were the Iberians?
The Iberian peninsula is named after the first culture that showed a certain homogeneity from the existence of a common economic and social structure that developed in the Mediterranean coast of southern France and Spain.
This civilization was settled in the southern Languedoc, Catalonia, part of Aragon, Valencia, Murcia and large areas of Andalusia.
Greeks, Phoenicians and Carthaginians a decisive influence on the formation of the Iberian culture.
The Iberians planned major urban centers equipped with fortifications, created its own art that developed over five centuries, shared a common language with the appropriate writing and a cash economy that allowed exploit agricultural resources, farming and mining in the country,
The historical context
Upon entering the exposure through the two towers to simulate entry into a breed Iberian settlement of Castellet Iberian wall in the town of Banyoles Tivissa (Tarragona), visitors can see by way of introduction and geographical context chronological where Iberian culture developed from an audiovisual.
It shows the history of the Iberians, external influences and invasions they suffered.
Similarly, presented a map from the main Iberian settlements discovered until now distributed along the Mediterranean coast and the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula, from Andalusia to the south-eastern France.
The military organization and forms of government
The town was not substantially Iberian warrior and did not have well-trained armies.
In times of turmoil and on occasion, acted as mercenaries when the Carthaginians and Romans, had to take up arms and fight to defend their interests.
This section shows the military organization of the Iberians: the strategies of fighting, the warring institutions, military architecture and equipment of knights and soldiers.
Iberian society was a highly hierarchical society.
To establish and legitimize their power, the Iberian princes built their own heroic myth: idealized representations of warriors on horseback, facing human enemies or fabulous animals, appear in the sculptures of the White Cerrillo Porcuna, Jaén, discovered in mid- seventies.
You can see the different strata of the Iberian society through a series of idealized sculptures of characters such as a priestess, a warrior aristocrat, a merchant, a craftsman and, finally, a farmer.
Daily life
In this area shows the activities that the Iberians developed throughout the day and utensils used in the most important tasks, namely, agriculture, livestock and textiles.
The Iberians developed new agricultural techniques related to advances in metallurgy of iron and ceramic around.
The most frequent crops Iberian culture were cereals, olives and vines.
In this sense, the Iberians used the rotary mill for both grain milling to produce oil.
A reproduction of the latter can be seen in the exhibition, alongside various flat mouth jars for storage and transport of oil, wine and cereals.
A loom frame, reproductions of tools and articles of rural life are among the items displayed in the exhibition.
Writing and trade
The inscriptions have been found in vessels, coins, weights, ceramic or stone can learn some words of Iberian, a pre-Indo-language of a very ancient remains are not known languages.
The Iberian alphabet consisted of signs that represented letters and other representing syllables.
Paradoxically, we know the sound of the Iberian script but not their meaning.
A sign of the existence of a consolidated trade is the appearance of the coins from the third century.
The first minted coins imitated Greek and Phoenician colonies of Marseilles, Empúries and Roses.
The distribution of products that are traded through the Iberian peninsula led to the first line of communication that swept the Mediterranean coast: the Milky Way Heraklea or Hannibal, who later became the Via Augusta.
The planning and architecture
In the Iberian world, the town is the center of power and economic redistribution.
Around it are built walls and sophisticated defensive systems.
Oppidum the name of large cities are known fortified, usually built in offshore areas.
The models of the villages of Bridge Tables in Jaén, Huelva Old Tejada, and Puig Castellar in Barcelona are three examples of urban planning that are displayed in the exhibition.
An exhibition of high-impact element in this area is the actual size reproduction of an Iberian housing, a rectangular house, built with bricks and covered with a flat roof.
The exhibition also presents some specialized models of buildings such as palaces and temples, buildings, responding to the social and religious needs of collective life.
Religion and funerary rites
The Iberians began to create spaces for the deposition of the dead forming real cemeteries.
This civilization cremated the dead on pyres of wood together with their most important possessions.
The remains of the deceased is not consumed by fire were purified by the ritual washing and then introduced, as a rule, in a ceramic urn was deposited in the grave.
An exception is the statue of the Dama de Baza (Granada), whose throne was dug a hole to enter the burnt bones.
The exhibition reproduces the tomb: the funerary sculpture and furnishings exposed, placed as found in his day.
This piece demonstrates both the complexity of the world as the ideological funeral it contained.
In this area, is also a scale reproduction of two of the most popular parts of the Iberian culture: the Lady of Elche (Alicante) and Balazote Bicha (Albacete).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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