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ILUNUM (Hellín) Albacete, Spain.

City of Tarraconensis 59 km S of Albacete (Ptol. 2.6.61). The principal finds are a magnificent Roman mosaic of the 2d c. A.D. showing the seasons and months of the year, and an Early Christian sarcophagus of ca. A.D. 380. Both are in Madrid, the mosaic in the National Archaeological Museum and the sarcophagus in the Royal Academy of History.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. Fernandez de Avilés, “Un nuevo mosaico descubierto en Hellín (Albacete),” ArchEspArq 14 (1940)I; P. de Palol, Arqueología cristiana de la España romana (1967) 302-3I.

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