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) 302-3
I.
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