Sistemas hidráulicos y transformaciones urbanas en el sector oriental de Mursiyainforme peliminar de la intervención realizada en la Plaza de las Balsas, nº 15

Abstract

Excavation developped during the last thee months of 1995. Four different stages can be basically distinguised because of town-planning splits and structural differences shown by stratification. First of all we own some solidly well-built structures on which settled adove walls. They can be dated from the last years of the 11th century or at the beginning of the 12th century. From this time two outstanding architectural elementes are preserved: a) A sewage pipe which marks the difference of an exterior space, possibly a street, because this great sewage pipe takes the flow of dirty water of other two smaller. Therefore, as a service street which connected the houses of this sector of the "madina". b) Clearly defined remains of a shop which only had two rectangular rooms connected between each other and one of which was a latrine. The second stage takes place between the en of the 12th century and the beginning of the 13th century. In that time the sewage pipe is made useless. A house of great size is built we had only excavated the western side in. We have only documented the entry and the hall -crossed through a sewage pipe that drained possibly the pluvial waters from the yard -the latrine and a section where a watermill well was situated that perhaps must supply with water the reservoir of the baths (hammam). Because of the fragmentation of the remains we haven't been able to document clearly the islamic buildings of the rest of the excavated lot. From the end of the Middle Ages we have documented a building in all likelihood a house with four moments of occupation. It has been identified a yard and several rooms it was surrounded by. In the 17th century it can be dated some arcades with some pillars supported with a solid of foundations and a tiled floor room with rowlock bricks.