Terracotas arquitectónicas del Santuario de La Encarnación (Caravaca de la Cruz, Murcia)

Abstract

In this paper a group of architectural terracottas discovered during excavations at the lberian Sanctuary in La Encarnación (Caravaca, Spain) are studied. The revetment plaques are decorated with a double row of palmettes and lotus-flowers placed back to back, and separated by a row of S-spirals. The inner edge has a cyma with a pattem of five lobed palmettes, each in a round topped frame by a band with scrolled terminals at the base ofthe palmette. The antefixes representing a young satyr's head with rufíled hair and maenad's head framed by a wreath of vine-leaves. A nebris is tied around his neck. This material is imponed from ltaly and it is dated in the 2nd century B.C.