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- Feb 25, 2023, 12:00pm
- ⛅ 13 °C
- Altitude: 92 ft
SpainAndalusiaSantiponce37°26’30” N 6°2’42” W
Day 293
Conjuto Arqueologico de Italia, Seville
February 25, 2023 in Spain ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
In the course of the Second Punic War, after the Carthaginian defeat in the battle of Ilipa (206 BC) at the hands of the Roman army led by Publius Cornelius Scipio, a detachment of legionaries wasRead more
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A nearby plaque reads: Despite not having been excavated completely, the data obtained has been used to consider this building as possibly one of the largest constructions in the city. The excavations carried out have defined two principal areas: one destined to a thermal use and the second was a domestic structure. The thermal area keeps the remainder of a heating system of two rooms, as well as a part of the frigidarium, or cold room, in which we can find the mosaic that gives name to the building. The Neptune mosaic is presided by the figure of the sea god, who appears on top of a carriage pulled by two sea horses and surrounded by dynamic mythological sea figures, usual iconography in thermal buildings. Other more realistic elements are the representations of species like a seashell, crustaceans, a red seabream or a gilt-head bream. The frame that encloses the central scene is decorated with fishing and fighting scenes between pygmies and cranes, as well as an interesting catalogue of fauna as an hippopotamus or a crocodile, clearly Egyptian inspired motifs.