No. 10 (1993): The Black Cave of the Camareta (Agramón, Hellín-Albacete)
Antigüedad y Cristianismo
The archaeological message of the caves is an enigma to be deciphered in each case. In which we are dealing with the decipherment began fifteen years ago, back in 1980, when on a beautiful spring day and by the hand of Antonio Selva Iniesta we first went up to the cave and began tracing some of the inscriptions. The book in your hands is only one step in the investigation. We have managed to write a fairly complete overview of the content of the texts; but the problem or, rather, the problems of the cave all keep crying out for a formulation. The first question raised by the study of a cave is its morphology, its existence and reason for being, which is why an architectural archaeological approach to it is fundamental and is what we have first attempted here. We have to thank Professor López Bermúdez for his study on the geomorphology of the cave, which is endorsed by himself and the architects Messrs. J.L. García Aguinaga and José A. Villamor Pérez the planimetry work that we present and that allows us to capture the most important data that is the manufactory character of the grotto.
