(Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Navarra, 2023) Uribe-Agudo, P. (Paula); Lapuente-Mercadal, M.P. (María Pilar); Angás-Pajas, J. (Jorge); Navarro-Caballero, M. (Milagros); Asensio-Esteban, J.A. (José Ángel); Iñiguez-Berrozpe, L. (Lara); Magallón-Botaya, M.A. (María Ángeles); Cuchí-Oterino, J.A. (José Antonio)
This paper deals with the archeometric and archaeological study of a tiny fragment of Roman monumental sculpture from the urban settlement of El Forau de la Tuta (Artieda, Zaragoza, Spain). This item, made of Luni-Carrara marble, represents a human left hand bearing a patera umbilicata belonging to a large-format statue, datable probably between the second half of the 1st and the beginning of the 2nd centuries, which would have been originally located in a public building, possibly a temple, of the city forum. According to the preserved iconographic parallels, we think that this statue would have been an Imperial Cult image, hypothetically a Lar Augusti or a Genius Augusti.
