11-14-2006, 05:31 PM
Tarraco (roman name of actual Tarrragona) have a roman harbor with a break-water.
It's were until XVII, when some marine's officer orders to destroy the remains of the break-water because causes troubles to the ships.
At the beginning of XIX, a new harbor was erected, with a new break-water, very bigger than roman ones. To make that pennsula part of the natural hill was digged and threw to the sea, including a great part of the old roman domestic zone...
At 336, probably the imperial complex was'nt in use but not yet ocupped by houses. Probably, a lot of the marble decoration was robbed, and the opus quadratum walls used as a quarry.
The beginnig of the domestic ocupation is 375/400.
The lower city was partially left, except the harbor zone, with an important activity reflected in the trade of ceramics of all Mediterranean zone.
I have made a lot of research about Tarraco's harbor, so make any question i could solve.
It's were until XVII, when some marine's officer orders to destroy the remains of the break-water because causes troubles to the ships.
At the beginning of XIX, a new harbor was erected, with a new break-water, very bigger than roman ones. To make that pennsula part of the natural hill was digged and threw to the sea, including a great part of the old roman domestic zone...
At 336, probably the imperial complex was'nt in use but not yet ocupped by houses. Probably, a lot of the marble decoration was robbed, and the opus quadratum walls used as a quarry.
The beginnig of the domestic ocupation is 375/400.
The lower city was partially left, except the harbor zone, with an important activity reflected in the trade of ceramics of all Mediterranean zone.
I have made a lot of research about Tarraco's harbor, so make any question i could solve.
Cesar Pocinya
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