The Archaeological Museum of Dénia has recently received an important private donation that enriches the exhibition's funds. It is a jar or ceramic container of underwater origin dated in the 12th century that has been donated by Amparo Escolano Cebrián.
This unique underwater find seems to have been fished on the high seas and probably dragged by the nets of a boat. And it is considered singular because in the Valencian coast we count with very few copies of an anoric container the centuries XII-XIII, Andalusí, coming from sea. Its prodigious state of conservation gives it a special relevance, given that anchor points such as Marineta Cassiana There are findings of small fragments typologically similar but with a state that only allows its recognition and little else.
According to a report by José A. Gisbert, director of the Archaeological Museum, it is a jug, or "tinaja" in the nomenclature of systematizations of Andalusian ceramics. Straight edge without thickening, cylindrical neck and piriformis body. Two handles of ribbon or vera on the upper third of the body. Flat base. It has a height of 84 cm and a diameter of the edge of 19'5 cm.
This type is well present in the ceramic records documented in the Daniya suburb, in the excavations of the Fort, in addition to the underwater finds of the Marineta Cassiana and has the same air that the Almohad period productions of the pots of the Montgó / Street of Teulada.
Although it is not possible to glimpse its content, it is true that with these products certain foodstuffs from the outskirts of Madinat Daniya were marketed throughout the Mediterranean, at a time when the wheat, almonds, raisins and figs of Denia were estimated at All al-Andalus and the Maghreb.
Amparo Escolano Cebrián
Mrs. Amparo Escolano Cebrián has already reached ninety years. It lives in a splendid house in the heart of the city of València, surrounded by antiques that accredit the splendor of his family in times of the Renaixença, before and after.
In the year 2000, one year after the inauguration of Toy Museum of Dénia, she left one of the main pieces of the room: a girl's desk, adorned with the body and face of "Betty Boop", in cut and painted wood, from the José Monllor Linares factory, from 1934.
Right now, he transmits to his family and in particular to his niece Paloma Escolano Amat, the desire that an archaeological piece, which has been almost a century in his house, for decades to the Route of Escolano and now, in Valencia, Return to Denia and the Archaeological Museum.
Doña Amparo Escolano Cebrián is the fruit of a lineage of educated families and with influence in the cap i casal, Which had their golden moments during the Renaixença. She is the daughter of Pascual Escolano Sabater, a well-established doctor, with origins in Real de Gandia. Her mother was a sister of two stars of the Renaixença Valencian: Luís Cebrián Mezquita, Official Cronista of the City of València and good friend of Roc Chabás, and Julio Cebrián, painter and, in particular, portraitist estimated of the time.
