NOVEDADES SOBRE LA ARX HASDRUBALIS DE QART HADAST (CARTAGENA): NUEVAS EVIDENCIAS ARQUEOLÓGICAS DE LA MURALLA PÚNICA

Abstract

Las excavaciones arqueológicas acometidas entre 2010 y 2011 en la cima del cerro del Molinete (Cartagena, España), han permitido constatar una estructura arquitectónica longitudinal formada por dos paramentos paralelos con compartimentos internos construidos con muros rectangulares a modo de tirantes. Tipológicamente, parece corresponder a una muralla de casamatas. Los materiales cerámicos procedentes de los estratos de destrucción y amortización de la estructura se fechan a finales del siglo III o inicios del II a.C., de donde la posibilidad de interpretarla como un tramo de la muralla construida por los fundadores de la ciudad púnica, destinada a defender la ciudad y su acrópolis (arx Hasdrubalis) por su flanco norte.Palabras clave: Qart Hadast, Cartago Nova, ciudad púnica de Cartagena, muralla casamatas.SummaryThe archaeological excavations undertaken during the years 2010 and 2011 in the top of “Cerro del Molinete”, Cartagena, Spain, have allowed us to state the existence, architecturally speaking, of a longitudinal structure, which consisted of two parallel faces with several inner compartments or sections that were built using rectangular walls as braces. Tipologically, this structure seems to belong to a casamates wall. The ceramic materials, coming from the refered stratified structure’s rubbles, date from the end of the III century B.C. or the begining of the II century B.C.; that is why we think about the possibility this structure may be interpreted as a stretch of the wall that was built by the carthaginian town’s founders and whose aim could be to defend the town and its acropolis (arx Hasdrubalis) by the northern side.Keywords: Qart Hadast, Cartago Nova, punic city of Cartagena, casamates wall.

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