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Documentación del Patrimonio Arqueológico mediante el procedimiento del diseño por contacto con las superficies musivas pavimentales y parietales del ambiente superior de las Termas Monumentales del Valeria (Cuenca, España)

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[EN] The archaeological excavations that have been carried out in the Hispano-Roman city of Valeria have exhumed the remains of a thermal complex from the 1st century AD that it was in service for four centuries and that, after its abandonment, it was barely spoiled for its constructive and decorative materials. This circumstance has allowed the conservation of a paving mosaic in a good state of preservation. In this same room has been recovered an important collection of fragments corresponding to the parietal musive decoration that constitutes a unique corpus in the Roman archaeology of the province of Cuenca. Due to the historical-archaeological importance of this type of elements, a meticulous data collection was carried out that included the realization, by means of the direct contact drawing technique, of a full-scale tracing of each of the paving surfaces and the most important and representative fragments of parietal musive decoration. This technique allowed an exhaustive knowledge not only of the represented musive surfaces, but also of technical details regarding the implementation of the decorative elements, the organization of work or the repairs carried out on this type of decorative surface.