Name 1
VITRINA RETROILUMINADA DE ALMADÉN EN LA ANTIGÜEDAD: SISAPO
Name 2
BACKLIT SHOWCASE OF ALMADÉN IN ANTIQUITY: SISAPO
ID number
001.45.Almadén
Manager / Administrator
Reyes Ávila Bercial, Cerco San Teodoro, s/n, 13400-Almadén (Ciudad Real)
Ownership
Public
Institution
Minas de Almadén y Arrayanes, S.A
Local / Original ID Number
001.001.003.315
Type of Object
Knowledge, social care
Description
Short description
"The showcase is composed of the following elements:
1. The image is the manufacture of vermillion in the Roman era.
2. Explanation: since the Roman era, the Almadén region, known as Sisaponense, had some mining centres of great importance to the empire.
Cinnabar was highly valued in Rome, where all the ore ended up after being extracted from the mines that, in the imperial era, were exploited in a timely manner and under the express order of the emperor.
Once in the capital, the Romans transformed cinnabar into vermillion, a red-coloured pigment onto which they placed considerable symbolic value. Vermillion was used as makeup and decoration, although it also had more practical uses such as writing or painting boats.
3. Facsimile reproduction of the document “The Ten Books of Architecture”, translated from Latin and with comments by Don Joseph Ortiz y Sanz. Madrid, Royal Press, 1787, Book VII, Chapter IX, pages 183–184, by the author VITRUBIO POLIÓN, M.; original at the National Library. "
1. The image is the manufacture of vermillion in the Roman era.
2. Explanation: since the Roman era, the Almadén region, known as Sisaponense, had some mining centres of great importance to the empire.
Cinnabar was highly valued in Rome, where all the ore ended up after being extracted from the mines that, in the imperial era, were exploited in a timely manner and under the express order of the emperor.
Once in the capital, the Romans transformed cinnabar into vermillion, a red-coloured pigment onto which they placed considerable symbolic value. Vermillion was used as makeup and decoration, although it also had more practical uses such as writing or painting boats.
3. Facsimile reproduction of the document “The Ten Books of Architecture”, translated from Latin and with comments by Don Joseph Ortiz y Sanz. Madrid, Royal Press, 1787, Book VII, Chapter IX, pages 183–184, by the author VITRUBIO POLIÓN, M.; original at the National Library. "
Measures
"showcase:
length: 1.35m
width: 0.45m
height: 0.75m"
length: 1.35m
width: 0.45m
height: 0.75m"
Materials
Steel
Dating
2008
Author / Producer
Minas de Almadén
Illustrations
Original use
Present use
Museum
Original location
Mining Park.
Present location
Mercury Museum (Mining Park)
STATE OF CONSERVATION
History of conservation:
Present state
good
Necessary activities:
DOCUMENTATION
Addresses /collections/links etc. where further in-depth information is accessible:
www.parqueminerodealmaden.es
Submitted
AYUNTAMIENTO ALMADEN
Submitted by
Alicia Escudero & Águeda Moyano
Date Submitted
25. 4. 2022
Date Edited
Never