FERREIRA, Manuel Pedro - O som de Martin Codax: sobre a dimensão musical da lírica galego-portuguesa (séculos XII-XIV) = The sound of Martin Codax: on the musical dimension of the galician-portuguese lyric (XII-XIV centuries). Lisboa: Unisys: Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 1986. XIX, 221, [3] p., [5] f. fac-sim.
Name: Terra sigillata fragment
Description: Late period sigillata fragment with a flat surface.
Decoration: Stamped bird (dove - Hayes style E).
Chronology: 6th century
Provenance: Paleochristian basilica
Location: Museum of Mértola – Paleochristian centre
Bibliography:
Torres, C; Macias, S., (ed.) (1993): Museu de Mértola - Basílica Paleocristã. Mértola, Campo Arqueológico de Mértola, p.86.
Name: Roof tile with markings
Description: A near complete tile made of reddish paste, with a smooth exterior and a very irregular inner part. Three engraved lines were drawn in the exterior, with the clay still fresh, across the tile’s width, and a curved line across its length. On one side there are six smaller lines and a word written in Arabic.
Chronology: 12th century
Dimensions: Height: 72mm, Width: 200mm, Length: 72mm
Provenance: Alcaria Longa
Name: Crossbow nuts
Description: A pair of bone crossbow nuts of cylindrical shape and circular horizontal cross-section, with a round opening at the centre and a rectangular groove on the middle.
Function: This object fitted a crossbow as part of its firing mechanism.
Chronology: 11th-12th centuries
Provenance: Citadel of Mértola
Location: Museum of Mértola - Islamic Museum Hub
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Name: Fistellus epitaph.
Transcript: Jug with palmette, cross inside a circular crown, and jug with palmette.
Fistellus (hedera) V (IR) (hedera) HON (ES) T (US) (hedera) VIXIT(hedera) NA(NOS) (hedera) LXX(hedera) REQ (U) IEVIT (hedera) IN PACE(hedera) D(IE) (hedera) VIII (hedera) KAL(ENDAS) (hedera) DECEMB(RES) (hedera) ERA XLVIII (CROSS)
Name: Bronze earrings
Description: A pair of simple bronze hoop earrings, with a thicker decorated extremity and a thinner pointy extremity, which slips inside the first one.
Decoration: The thicker extremity is decorated
Chronology: 5th-7th centuries
Provenance: Grave 10 - Monastery
Location: Monastery - Monte Mosteiro
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Name: Oil lamp
Description: A single nozzle oil lamp with a pouring hole at the centre of the discus. Circular ribbon handle with a small central groove. It has a flat bottom and compact texture made of white paste.
Decoration: The discus is decorated with a rosette of sixteen petals. At the bottom there are two concentric circles with the potter's mark “AC(...)” on the inside. Within the pouring hole lays an iron wire typical of Roman funeral rites.
Name: Insignia depicting Horse and Rider
Description: Carved bronze plaque depicting horse and rider, probably used as an insignia or amulet.
Material: Bronze
Chronology: 12th century
Provenance: Beira Rio Guest House - Mértola
Location: Museum of Mértola
Name: Statue of a togaed figure, 1st century AD
Name: Bronze Plate.
Description: A bronze plate with chiselled decorations in which several concentric calligraphic patterns and geometric decoration surround a central medallion where two deers entwine their necks. The plate may have an Oriental origin, although the writings were attributed to an Almohad workshop.
Material: Bronze
Chronology: first half of the 12th century.
Provenance: Citadel of Mértola