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Shield

UnknownModern Era. Year 1786

Museo Arqueológico de Alicante MARQ

Museo Arqueológico de Alicante MARQ
Alicante/Alacant, Spain

Shield commemorating the construction of the Tibi reservoir hermitage. The shield itself has been carved in an embossed pattern on a rectangular platform. It is divided into 4 areas in which two towers and two lions are represented crowned by a cross and crown. It is then framed with two borders. Below the shield the following legend appears in four lines:
THIS R. HERMITAGE WAS CONSTRUCTED ON THE 3/ OF THE YEAR 1786 BEING JUDGE ADMINor. OF THE R, L / RESERVOIR, THE COMMISSIONER OF THE GRRA. / DON ANTONIO MONTUFAR Y NILLA.

C.S.: 11174

Photographed in AZUAR RUIZ, R., OLCINA DOMÉNECH, M. y SOLER DÍAZ, J. (eds.) (2007): Catalog-guide of the Archeological Museum of Alicante. Alicante, p. 132.

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