Mausoleum of Pozo Moro

The mausoleum of Pozo Moro in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional de España in Madrid

The Mausoleum of Pozo Moro is a mausoleum of the Iberians dating from the late 6th century. BC, which was discovered in 1970 during excavations in the province of Albacete .

location

Pozo Moro, in the Spanish municipality of Chinchilla de Monte-Aragón , is about 840 meters high and 125 kilometers from the Mediterranean coast at the crossroads of important ancient roads . Here the road from crossing Carthago Nova ( Cartagena ) to Complutum ( Alcalá de Henares ), the central Meseta union, with the Via Heraclea (also Via Augusta specified), of Gades ( Cádiz ) from the Guadalquivir followed and along the Levante led .

description

The mausoleum built today in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional de España in Madrid was found scattered over an area of ​​12 × 12 meters during the excavations of an Iberian necropolis . The mausoleum, which an Iberian king built around 500 BC. Was built, is the oldest of all known Iberian grave monuments. The lintel position of the ashlars enabled an exact reconstruction of the system, which must have been around 10 meters high and stood on a three-step base with a side length of 3.65 meters. Four stone lions adorn the corners of the mausoleum, the walls of which are decorated with reliefs . Various depictions of gods can be found on the reliefs. “Indeed, the lions and the mythological reliefs of the friezes are of Syrian- Hittite origin and the vivid example of the orientalizing phase of Iberian art before Greco-oriental influences towards the end of the 6th century BC. Prevailed. "

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literature

• Martín Almagro-Gorbea: Pozo Moro . In: Michael Koch (Ed.): Die Iberer (exhibition catalog). Hirmer, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-7774-7710-9 , pp. 148-149.

Web links

Commons : Mausoleum of Pozo Moro  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see Martín Almagro-Gorbea, p. 149

Coordinates: 38 ° 50 ′ 11 "  N , 1 ° 41 ′ 48"  W.