A stone found in Marchena could change the history of this Sevillian town. It appeared in an abandoned convent and has a Latin inscription that speaks of an ancient Roman town in the same area, dand which was not recorded until now.
The key piece of our Roman past is found among some olive trees, on a limestone pedestal of little more than a meter where you can read “son of Marco and of the Galeria tribe”.
It is the base where the statue of one of the main magistrates of this new Roman city would be placed. “For the first time, it is 100% confirmed that Marchena had a municipality, that is, a municipal category in Roman times,” archaeologist Sergio García-Dils points out.
He has spent 25 years studying the area’s Roman past and He reached this inscription by following the trail of another pedestal placed just in the other corner. Finds located in a strategic and well-connected place that today is falling apart.
The ruins of the old convent of Santa Eulalia shelter these pillars today. The neighbors are already mobilizing so that “the little that remains is not lost and that they declare it of Cultural Interest”. Hispania Nostra has already included it in its red heritage list.
Source: Lasexta
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