Una nueva vía funeraria en Colonia Patricia (Córdoba). El sepulcretum de Llanos del Pretorio

Abstract

In this paper we present a new Roman sepulcretum which has recently been dug out in the northern necropolis of Córdoba (Spain): a well-planned space from a topographic point of view, organised into paired enclosures with a predominant module of 12 x 12 Roman feet opened to more than one funeral routes delimited by milestones –two of them belonging to mensuare sepulcri– and sometimes closed through masonry walls with access doors in its facade and an ustrinum inside. The necropolis was sealed by a flood leading to recover the major part of the intact burials and in situ –52 cremations and 11 child burials–, with chronologies of the middle of the first century ad. All these materials, yielded by developer-led archaeology, are being studied within the framework of a multidisciplinary project with researchers from different universities –numismatic, glass, ceramic, anthropology, epigraphy, paleolandscape, fauna, etc.–. This work is just one of the first advances.