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23 May 2013
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Archaeology

  • Tombstone with circular head and rectangular vertical body. Front face: decorated with central rayed disk, some of the rays ending in volutes. Upper left corner with inverted “E” shape. Back face: bas-relief of straight Greek cross. Central circle incline © IMC/DDF, Photographer José Pessoa
    Disk-shaped Stele
    Last Updated 21 November 2007
    Middle Ages
    Granite
    43,5 x 18,5 cm
    Origin: Guarda
    Inventory no.: 192
  • Small clay bowl of thin sides and circular bottom. The mouth-edge is circular and the sides straight. Some parts are darkened. No decoration. The texture of the faded ceramic paste is rough. © IMC/DDF, Photographer José Pessoa
    Domestic ceramic piece
    Last Updated 21 November 2007
    Early Middle Ages
    Clay
    5,5 x 12 cm
    Origin: Rua D. Miguel de Alarcão - Guarda
    Inventory no.: 592
  • Part from a bowl, from which survived four fragments from its mouth-edge and curved sides. Carenated sides, especially thick in that area. Three-section decoration: on sides but separated by frame, a frieze with vegetation motifs. © IMC/DDF, Photographer José Pessoa
    Fragment from decorated bowl – Drag. 29
    Last Updated 21 November 2007
    50 – 70 d. C.
    Sigillata from Hispania
    Diameter – 13,2 cm
    Origin: Póvoa do Mileu – Guarda
    Inventory no.: 468
  • Rectangular honorific stone, with chipped corners, especially the face with epigraphs. Inscription bordered by half-relief frieze. Translation: “To the Emperor Caesar Traianus Hadrianus Augustus Maximus Pontifex, Son of the Divine Traianus Parthicus." © IMC/DDF, Photographer José Pessoa
    Honorific Stone
    Last Updated 21 November 2007
    118 AD.
    Marble
    52 x 32 cm
    Origin: Marialva – Mêda - Guarda
    Inventory no.: 112
  • This is an anthropomorphic sculpture, visibly of a male figure, and engraved in bas-relief. The traces present a regular profile of an open-ended U. © MG, Photograph from Marcos Osório
    Menhir Statue
    Last Updated 10 December 2007
    Chalcolithic – (early Copper Age)
    Middle grain granite
    102 x 42 cm
    Origin: Tapada – Demoura - Guarda
    Inventory no.: 1464-D
  • Circular fibula with rhombus-shape, blade arch; upper part mimicking laurel leaf; decorated with two parallel frames along its lines and closed at the ends with two oblique strips with identical motif. © IMC/DDF, Photographer José Pessoa
    Ring Fibula from Hispania
    Last Updated 21 November 2007
    12 Square type variant
    From 2nd half of 7th century to late 6th century b.C.
    Bronze
    Arch: 2,5 x 6 cm; ring: 5,5 cm
    Origin: Póvoa do Mileu - Guarda
    Inventory no.: 445
  • Torso from statue, with chest plate. Sword cord hanging from right shoulder, sword handle still visible. Chest plate with image of centaur. Pterige with surviving lynx head. Rough texture. © IMC/DDF, Photographer José Pessoa
    Torso from Imperial Rome
    Last Updated 21 November 2007
    2nd century – Trajan’s era
    Marble
    125 x 60 cm
    Origin: Póvoa do Mileu - Guarda
    Inventory no.: 1091
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