Urban artifact8/1/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It occupies an area of four hectares, but it is possible that the site’s dimensions are even larger and that it extends to other-still unexplored-agricultural lands. It is situated inside an agricultural plot about 390 meters long and 140 meters wide. The El Forau de la Tuta site is located 1.5 kilometers from Artieda’s city center, on the fertile plain of the Aragón River. A Corinthian capital and fluted drum with a shaft located in Artieda’s San Pedro hermitage. The medieval enclave’s ruins include the apse area of the church, which was part of the San Pedro hermitage numerous silos with circular openings, which were excavated from the subsoil and only perceptible by geo-radar and an extensive cemetery consistent with Christian burial rites (the Paleoymás company partially investigated the latter in 2020). They have identified the village as Artede, Arteda, Artieda or Arteda Ciuitate. The specialists have also found that, between the 9th and 13th centuries, another peasant habitat-type town or village was superimposed on top of the Roman settlement. Later, the same site took on another iteration as a rural habitat during the Visigoth and early Andalusian periods.” The report notes that based on important evidence from the ruins preserved in the hermitage, as well as artifacts held in various public and private collections and the findings at the site, the settlement was “of urban character-the city’s name is currently unknown-and it developed during the imperial period. The study was authored by the experts José Ángel Asensio, Paula Uribe, Lara Íñiguez, María Ángeles Magallón, Milagros Navarro, Jorge Angás, Enrique Ariño, Irene Mañas, Carmen Guiral, Cristian Concha, Óscar Lanzas, Aurora Asín, and Guillermo Mora. It is striking that, despite the city’s large dimensions and “buildings of monumental proportions,” no one knows its ancient name. Now, the research team has published the results in a report, El Forau de la Tuta: A Hitherto Unknown Roman Imperial City on the Southern Slopes of the Pyrenees. Three years later, the experts have confirmed that these sites formed a large single archaeological complex, and they detected two phases of occupation on the surface of the site: one during the imperial Roman period (the 1st to 5th centuries) and another during the early-medieval Christian era (the 9th to 13th centuries). In 2018, the City Council of Artieda-located in northeastern Spain in the province of Zaragoza, and part of the country’s Aragon region-asked the University of Zaragoza’s Archaeology Department for help in studying some ruins located around the San Pedro hermitage, known variously as El Forau de la Tuta, Campo de la Virgen, or Campo del Royo. ![]()
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