Núcleo Visigótico Regional Museum

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Santo Amaro houses the museum

The regional museum Núcleo Visigótico ( German  Visigoth Center ) is located in Beja in Portugal .

The museum, set up in the former church of Santo Amaro, contains mainly sculptures from Beja and the surrounding area from the earliest Middle Ages (from the 5th to the 8th centuries).

Location and nature

The church dates back to the 5th century and is outside the old city walls, at the point where the Roman road towards Évora began. It was rebuilt in the 16th and 17th centuries. Six of the pillars inside are made of spoil material . The capitals are variations of the classic leaf and volute motifs.

collection

The exhibits were mainly compiled by the Portuguese archaeologist Abel Viana. A diamond-decorated iron sword fragment from a warrior's grave dates from the 5th century. A 70 cm high fragment of a column shaft in relief and some capitals represent the sculpture from the Visigothic period around the 7th century. The exhibits, mostly decorated with vegetable and geometric motifs in the typical notch or two-level technique, are divided into u. a. Fighters, friezes, slabs and small pillars. The pillars, which are common in Lusitania and are around two meters high, are also represented. A Visigoth grave slab made of limestone with an inscription dates from the era 703 of the Spanish calendar (665 AD). A fragment with the beginning of a Visigoth epitaph was reused centuries later on the reverse in Arabic script for Muhammad ibn Mahd i ibn Hud , who was murdered in 1238 AD .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hermanfrid Schubart: The culture of the Bronze Age in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Walter de Gruyter, 1975, ISBN 978-3-110-02339-8 , p. 254. Restricted preview in the Google book search

Coordinates: 38 ° 1 '3.7 "  N , 7 ° 51' 58.4"  W.