A vaulted chamber in Servilia's Tomb, Carmona, Spain, 2007. Artist: Samuel Magal

A vaulted chamber in Servilia's Tomb, Carmona, Spain, 2007. Artist: Samuel Magal

2-370-330 - Samuel Magal/Sites & Photos/Heritage Images

A vaulted chamber in Servilia's Tomb (Tumba de Servilia), Carmona, Spain, 2007. The Tomb of Servilia was probably the most monumental tomb in the necropolis. It reproduces a Hellenistic style building with a gallery or porticoes set around a central courtyard, of which the northern wing has been preserved. Here, the sculpture of Servilia (now in the Carmona Museum) was found. After the gallery, there is a short passageway, with the threshold and traces of the doorway that once enclosed the antechamber, an ingenious architectural device given the complexity of the layout of an open space that leads into a tiny, isolated funerary chamber. All this was enriched by a series of mural paintings alluding to funerary rites and symbols. It is a unique building in funerary architecture, and a symbol of the social pre-eminence of a family linked to the exercise of power in Carmona.


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People Information

Creator
  1. Samuel Magal, attributed to: : Photographer, head researcher and archivist of Sites and Photos

Medium
  1. Photograph

Geographic Hierarchy

World Europe Spain

  1. 40 00 00 N , 004 00 00 W

World Europe Spain Andalusia

  1. 37 36 00 N , 004 30 00 W

World Europe Spain Andalusia Seville Carmona

  1. 37 28 00 N , 005 38 00 W

Category Hierarchy

Locations & Buildings Other

Society & Culture Death & Burial


Digital Image Size

Pixel Dimensions (W x H) : 5111x3407
File Size : 51,016kb


Aliases

  1. R90060016
  1. 0740000809
  1. 2-370-330
  1. 2370330
  1. R90060016


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