Restoration of a Phoenician coin Mazarron II come on en popa All These components are included in the consolidation process in the ARQVAtec laboratory, del National Museum of Underwater Archeology (ARQVA). The Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, and the President of the Region of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, visited this morning the facility where the remains of the embarcación are being prepared to come back to life.
The rest of this piece, This age is estimated at 2,600 yearsThey are now immersed “in a stable solution similar to the one that formed when they were in the middle of the sea”, explains ARQVA director Rafael Sabio. “As it turned out the ship was making a short distance movement, it would be a daily activity and she was surprised by the stormhundienza”.
El Mazarron II was placed in 1995 in front of the coast of the village of the same name, only two meters deep 50 meters from the beach from La Isla, in the region of Murcia. The mining work started last September and ended in November, and all its components were moved to the ARQVA laboratory. According to Rafael Sabio, the group consists of “22 numbered pigs”, more notebooks and encl“.
These remains represent an authentic treasure for archaeologists and historians, as their origin is estimated between the seventh and sixth centuries BC: approx. three days before the arrival of the Romans in the Iberian Peninsula.
The state of the remains of the Phoenician Pecio Mazarrón II, in the process of consolidation in the laboratory of the Museo Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática (ARQVA)
Curiously, the Madeira ancla is one of the crowning joys of this work, as the museum director explains below: one of the oldest surviving construction models. This feature “included a bottom-loading compartment, so it weighed more. This made conservation easier because it allowed the ship to be placed on the bottom and stored on the sand,” Sabio added.
“The Madeira ship is the Cartagena cypress”adds the expert. Furthermore, the most removable part of the piece is that it preserves most of the ship’s components, from bow to stern, including the amphora and some hardware elements, disconnecting the cable that attaches the anchor to the ship.
All these rest areas are located submerged in the pools. Now the process of consolidation takes place by “retracting the dissolution in that which is immersed in a controlled form.” Later, this dissolution will be replaced by a synthetic material (polyethylene glycol-PEG) which will remove the lost resistance, e.g. It will retain its appearance, texture and color: “This will allow the piece to compact before the next step.”
One of the pieces of the Phoenician piece Mazarrón II, in the laboratory of the Museo Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática (ARQVA).
Next, a lyophilization process will take place, which will allow dehydration of the container’s hydration and guarantee its preservation while respecting its integrity. If this is a very delicate part of the process, to ensure the result, the Ministry of Culture turned over 1.2 million euros in a completely new team tailored to the size needed to place these pieces.
Once this part is completed, the process will be complete. Director of the Museo de Arqueología Subacuática adelanta que “I will be years of strength to make this joyful climax on the way to a good port“. Culture Minister Ernest Urtasun therefore describes the ARQVA museum as a “reference center for the whole world, which has been recognized in the UNESCO good practice register”.
Slowness and precision
The President of the Region of Murcia, Fernando López Miras, notes that this project was located in Mazarrón, Cartagena and the Region of Murcia as world representative of underwater archaeology“And this is the process that took the rest. Mazarron II until the ARQVAtec laboratory is large and complete.
The President of the Region of Murcia, Fernando López Miras (c), followed by the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, visits the remains of the work of Mazarrón II at the Museo Nacional de Arqueología Subacuática (ARQVA).
Hasta su extraction, el pecio it was preserved in situ en su yachtonly stored in a metal case. However, the change in environmental conditions, influenced by climate change and frequent climate changes, has a serious impact on stability and it is necessary to ensure its preservation.
In 2021, an agreement was reached on mining and conservation treatment in the ARQVA annexes. A general implementation protocol for the project was then formalized between the Ministry of Culture and the Community, and later a cooperation agreement was signed between the Council of Culture and the University of Valencia to update and complete the existing documentation on the vessel.
Therefore, the archaeological work counted on the participation of 14 experts and was carried out for mining unas bandajas or “cunas” above which you place one of the pigs in a horizontal position. Their parts were previously produced using 3D printing systems that adapted to each of the piece’s fragments; and others that were intended to store parts of parts that did not know the exact shape, if they specified in situ inside the sea.
Underwater archaeologists with the last piece of ‘Mazarrón II’ rising from the water.
Total project cost of mining, transportation and storage of money Mazarron II from the original installation to the ARQVAtec laboratory was 350,000 euros for the community. This project was led by Principal Investigator Carlos de Juan with the cooperation and support of ARQVA technical staff as well as international specialists in this field.
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