Already the second day we began the task of digging with shovels and trowels along with real archaeologists and a group of us helped two restorer who worked on a floor from the Roman period (third century AD), the other took care of a complex of tombs of the Christian period (VI-VII century AD). The Roman floor (on which a big cat dozing perennially named Gatully) is decorated with mosaic work was to remove, clean and divide by color tiles that were then repositioned faithfully following the original plot. It was easy to reconstruct the geometric part of the design, based on the repetition of the same form, it was not possible to deduce the contrary, as the central image mosaic. The style of decoration, it is considered that the floor belonged to a mansion, but the possibility remains open that this is a public building. (3. Continued)
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