Abstract
The aim of this collaboration is to present a series of documents, basically letters (signed by Casto Sampedro, Eladio Oviedo Arce, Ricardo Blanco-Ciceron and others) about a Roman tombstone that was found in 1907 in Arano (Rianxo, A Coruna, Spain), and at present is in the Museo de Pontevedra. The documents, which are reproduced in an appendix, come from four Galician archives ( Museo do Pobo Galego, Museo de Pontevedra, Real Academia Galega, Catedral de Santiago and Instituto de Estudios Gallegos Padre Sarmiento ), and they provide new data about the discovery of the stele, the laborious process for his acquisition, the admission into the Sociedad Arqueologica de Pontevedra, his exhibition in the Exposicion Regional Gallega de 1909, and the fruitless negotiations on the definitive permanency of the tombstone in Santiago. The stele’s description (text, anthropomorphic decoration and architectural decoration) and a bibliographical update over this gravestone precede the study of the documents and his transcription.
Highlights
The aim of this collaboration is to present a series of documents, basically letters about a Roman tombstone that was found in 1907 in Araño (Rianxo, A Coruña, Spain), and at present is in the Museo de Pontevedra
Ya el primer editor de esta estela, Casto Sampedro, escribía en septiembre de 1931: “La representación resulta [...] masculina, 12 Sonia María García Martínez, “Los motivos ornamentales en las inscripciones funerarias romanas de la provincia de A Coruña: ritual y signi cado”, Brigantium, 14 (2003), pág. 182
Un cuarto de siglo antes ya Antonio García Bellido señalaba la singularidad de la superposición de arcadas aludiendo, aunque sin citarla, a la estela de Araño: “algunas veces estas arquitecturas [arquerías] preséntanse en dos pisos, pero es cosa rara en extremo [...] otra del Museo de Pontevedra muestra seis [arcos] en dos pisos de a tres” [Antonio García y Bellido, Esculturas romanas de España y Portugal, vol 1, Madrid, CSIC, 1949, págs. 334-335]
Summary
CORRESPONDENCIA SOBRE LA ESTELA ROMANA DE ARAñO (RIANXO) CONSERVADA EN EL MUSEO DE PONTEVEDRA. Resumen La nalidad de esta colaboración es dar a conocer un conjunto de documentos, fundamentalmente cartas (suscritas, entre otros, por Casto Sampedro, Eladio Oviedo Arce o Ricardo Blanco-Cicerón), acerca de una estela funeraria romana (CIRG-I n.o 81) adscribible al Subgrupo Rías Baixas, hallada en 1907 en Araño (Rianxo) y que actualmente se exhibe en el Museo de Pontevedra. Resumo A nalidade desta colaboración é dar a coñecer un conxunto de documentos, principalmente cartas (asinadas, entre outros, por Casto Sampedro, Eladio Oviedo Arce ou Ricardo Blanco-Cicerón), que fan referencia á estela funeraria romana (CIRG-I n.o 81) adscribible ó Subgrupo Rías Baixas, atopada en 1907 en Araño (Rianxo) e conservada na actualidade no Museo de Pontevedra. CORRESPONDENCE ABOUT THE ROMAN STELE OF ARAñO (RIANXO) PRESERVED IN THE MUSEO DE PONTEVEDRA
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