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The discovery of an underground funerary mausoleum of the Roman era in the Sevillian town of Carmona has managed to surprise even the professionals of the Archaeological Service.

In Carmona, which retains an important heritage legacy , it has been 35 years since such an archeological discovery occurred. This is an "intact" mausoleum, explains the municipal archaeologist, Juan Manuel Román.

An access well and a funerary chamber are the main discoveries, which are accompanied by vessels such as vessels, plates and glasses of glass and ceramics, of which the archaeologist insists , "although they are few, their value is very high . " Everything seems to point, given the quality of the objects found, that the funeral mausoleum would belong to a family of high purchasing power.

Thanks to the notice of the family that was carrying out works in their single-family housing in the municipality, the archaeologists team was aware of the site. However, the technicians carry out an archaeological follow-up and this architectural treasure would have seen the light sooner or later. The full collaboration that this family is providing to the municipal team, however, Román details, "is not usually common."

Juan Manuel Román works with Jacobo Vázquez and Adrián Santos, colleagues, in the team responsible for analyzing the site. They explain how the news of the site coincided precisely with the new edition of the summer course on archeology that they were teaching these days at the headquarters of Pablo de Olavide University in the municipality of Carmona: «It has been a coincidence, for the students of the course this is being a unique opportunity ».

NO TOURIST VISITS

After the intervention, Román details, the tomb will be included in the house where the family in question was carrying out works, but will not be open to tourism . It may be occasional visits by archaeologists or other professionals who need to conduct studies on time.

Juan Manuel Román explains that at least three of the six funeral urns that make up this mausoleum have serigraphs that could reveal the names of the deceased.

The archaeologist details that this mausoleum does not preserve funerary monuments (visible pieces of high value on the surface) because these materials are usually reused. Thus, in the municipality of the Andalusian capital, what is preserved is the underground part of the construction.

The Delegation in Seville of the Ministry of Culture of the Junta de Andalucía, for its part, already announced yesterday that it authorized with «provisional character the urgent archaeological activity of the Roman columbarium».

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