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1st century BC - 6th century AD

Rua dos Correeiros Archaeological Nucleus (NARC)

This area of downtown
Felicitas Iulia Olisipo
- near the Tagus shore and the river branch that, at the time, connected the Arroios and Valverde river streams, which ran aboveground and converged in the present area of Praça da Figueira - was just outside the city walls, near the city's Southwestern
via
(road).
After the mid-1st century BC, the area was used as a funerary area, where rituals of
inhumation
and
cremation
were practiced, but in the mid-1st century AD, a fish products production complex was built over this
necropolis
. The complex was active until the 5th century AD. Archaeological excavations identified 31
cetariae
(tanks used to salt fish) and some support structures, as well as a residential area. Excavations also discovered part of a house and its bathing facilities, with several pools and bathtubs. One room in particular still retains its mosaic pavement.
The archaeological collection is representative of the important and abundant local and regional ceramic production, but also of the great trade dynamics of the
Felicitas Iulia Olisipo
port, as indicated by the presence of several ceramic recipients imported from
Baetica
(Roman province corresponding roughly to present-day Andalusia), Italy and North Africa.
After this factory was abandoned, in the 5th century AD, the roadway continued to be used and this area recovered its peri-urban character, as evidenced by an isolated tomb from the High Middle Ages.
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Musealized
Fish products production unit (1st - 5th century AD). Image courtesy of NARC | Jacinta Bugalhão
Fish products production unit (1st - 5th century AD). Image courtesy of NARC | Jacinta Bugalhão
Fish products production unit (1st - 5th century AD). Image courtesy of NARC | Jacinta Bugalhão
General layout of the fish products production unit. Image courtesy of NARC | Jacinta Bugalhão
Baths (3rd - 5th century AD). Image courtesy of NARC | Jacinta Bugalhão
Baths (3rd - 5th century AD). Image courtesy of NARC | Jacinta Bugalhão
Drawing of the baths mosaic (3rd century AD). Image courtesy of NARC | Jacinta Bugalhão
Segment of Felicitas Iulia Olisipo‘s southwest via (1st - 5th century AD). Image courtesy of NARC | Jacinta Bugalhão
Well (1st - 5th century AD). Image courtesy of NARC | Jacinta Bugalhão
Cinerary urn, plate-lid and unguentarium (1st century AD). Image courtesy of NARC | Jacinta Bugalhão
Inhumation tomb (1st century AD). Image courtesy of NARC | Jacinta Bugalhão
Inhumation tomb (4th / 5th century AD). Image courtesy of NARC | Jacinta Bugalhão
Common ware produced regionally (5th century AD). Image courtesy of NARC | Jacinta Bugalhão
Common ware produced regionally (5th century AD). Image courtesy of NARC | Jacinta Bugalhão
Amphora produced regionally (3rd - 5th century AD). Image courtesy of NARC | Jacinta Bugalhão
African Red-Slip ceramic dish (5th century AD). Image courtesy of NARC | Jacinta Bugalhão
Oil lamp produced in Hispania (4th - 5th century AD). Image courtesy of NARC | Jacinta Bugalhão
Paleochristian oil lamp produced in Africa (3rd - 5th century AD). Image courtesy of NARC | Jacinta Bugalhão
Glass cup (4th - 5th century AD). Image courtesy of NARC | Jacinta Bugalhão
Glass cup with engraved fish (4th - 5th century AD). Image courtesy of NARC | Jacinta Bugalhão

Multimedia

The industrial belt of Olisipo

Typology

City | Urbs, House | Domus, Road, Well, Necropolis, Fish preparations

Archeological interventions

1991; 1993-1995; 2017

Suggested reading

Amaro, C., ed. (1995) - Núcleo Arqueológico Rua dos Correeiros. Lisboa: Fundação Banco Comercial
Português.

Bugalhão, J. (2001) - A indústria romana de transformação e conserva de peixe em Olisipo. Núcleo
Arqueológico da Rua dos Correeiros
(Trabalhos de Arqueologia; 15). Lisboa: Instituto Português de
Arqueologia.

Bugalhão, J. (2017) - O eixo viário ocidental de Olisipo. In Debaixo dos Nossos Pés. Pavimentos históricos de Lisboa. Lisboa: Museu de Lisboa, pp. 120-123.

Bugalhão, J.; Arruda, A. M.; Sousa, E.; Duarte, C. (2013) - Uma necrópole na praia. O cemitério romano do Núcleo Arqueológico da Rua dos Correeiros (Lisboa). Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia, Lisboa: DGPC. 16, pp. 243-275.

Address

Rua dos Correeiros, 21, Lisboa

Useful links

Rua dos Correeiros Archaeological Nucleus | Website - https://www.fundacaomillenniumbcp.pt/nucleo-arqueologico/



Rua dos Correeiros Archaeological Nucleus | Archaeologist Portal - http://arqueologia.patrimoniocultural.pt/index.php?sid=sitios&subsid=48414



Rua dos Correeiros Archaeological Nucleus | Archaeological object - http://www.matriznet.dgpc.pt/MatrizNet/Objectos/ObjectosListar.aspx?TipoPesq=2&NumPag=1&RegPag=50&Modo=1&Criterio=NARC

Identification code​

LxR1106002

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