Josep Vicent Lerma
Levante-EMV, November 23, 2008
More than one and a half since the discovery of extensive media coverage during those early Ides of March of this Figure notable local ancient sculpture in the course of excavations conducted by the archaeologist private companies Herreros Tina in the tangle of old streets near the Central Market, released on time in these pages "is a statue of Roman imperial times and a meter high in the heart of Valencia (Levante-EMV 28/03/2007) and a neat photo essay of Josep Manel Vert at number 26 in the journal Valentia, little else has become known to the aptly titled "Lady of the Boatella" in honor of primordial Boaler or pasture for grazing herds of cattle, "bovata" and "bovatella" M. Sanchis Guarner dixit of the ancient city of Valencia, a place that held a vast necropolis between II and VII centuries of the Common Era and many years later, a populous suburb Islamic, mimicking the famous Iberian bust of Alcudia de Elche derisively dubbed the "Lady of Paterna, a helmeted warrior's head painted in green and manganese on a plate XIV century. Just as it has not leaked to the public from any academic progress then it is known in terms of new research on iconography as his final assignment of the seven Muses or any of the many female deities Latinas.
slipped on April 11 following the foundation's blog Mare Nostrum "The History Museum of Valencia will host the new Roman sculpture" (sic) or the adjusted findings of Professor José Luis Jiménez in the sense that it would be really a representation of Fortune, he would hold his right flank in a missing rudder with which piloted the fate of men and would subject the left hand with the equally mythical lost cornucopia of the goat Amalthea, in its original context of a funerary monument (Levante-EMV, 05/04/1907) , collected in a thorough review of JR Segui. Deity to which one of the citizens "Valentini " Titus Rubrius Restitutus and expense devoted to an altar or pedestal to the late first century AD in the privileged forum demarcation of the colony.
In this vein, it is worth remembering that this unknown white marble effigy, whose leg extended right hand serves as a support while flexing Gently contrary, paradoxically beheaded by historical misfortunes, thanks to the good quality of her sophisticated dress styles, a sort of peplum "with Cingular on multiple vertical pleats tunic, and carved using a technique aimed at first similar to that of "wet wipes" over a hundred years after the pioneering discovery during construction of the road opening for Peace in 1899 with an interesting marble torso of an athlete, might be one of the best finds ever made Roman sculpture in the basement of our Mediterranean city.
excellence is precisely this somewhat higher than the general provincial lapidary workshop of our geographic area which has led us to investigate the extent of our abilities among potential models of this arcane Hellenistic inspiring lady valentina, which could be referred on the basis of the peculiar breasted their sleeves to the refined terse Fortuna-Tyche of the second century AD Archaeological Museum of Istanbul from the remote ad Hypium Prusias (Turkey).
Finally and as a corollary, not to get out of fashion, we also vows to the gods, in this case to their own fortune, for the Lady unearthed Boatella not end fast the eyes of the Valencian as the mosaic of the Seven Muses Pouaig de Montcada, wickedly withdrawn from public exhibition halls of the Museum of Fine Arts San Pio V "or perhaps turned into a recurring" remake "of hackneyed and artificial stone Augusto Caesaraugusta Forum speaker (Zaragoza) for the sake of new technologies, with touches of fairground attraction. A picturesque spot and another improper. Votum libens solvit .
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