Cornisa moldurada

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Material: Limestone with stucco remains Dimensions: Long. 119 cm.; Width 86 cm.; Height 44.5 cm. Origin: Carteia, San Roque (Cádiz) Chronology: Roman Augustan era (27 BC-14 AD) Cornice carved with decorated modillions, alternately featuring acanthus leaves and bull protomes. Most of the preserved cornices today belonging to this building appeared in the well-known "bull room" during excavations led by D.E. Woods between 1963-67. The one now exhibited at the San Roque Municipal Museum, which maintained virtually all its original plaster coating, was discovered in 1998, already during the UAM Carteia Project excavations. Properly restored and lacking its original polychromy, which has not been preserved, it brings us unusually close to the finished original state of this type of "oyster stone" architecture.