The Museum of the Ways of the Gaudí Palace presents as September’s ‘Piece of the Month’ examples of the most profusely used material in Roman construction: clay. They will be on display throughout the month of September in a prominent place on the second floor of the Gaudí Palace.
This sample of examples of the most profusely used material in Roman construction in addition to stone, brick(later coctus) presents an enormous variety of shapes and sizes such as the square (called pedals), the circular (to form small columns that supported circulation floors in the hypocaust of thermal enclosures) and the triangular with a curved side, very unique and used for the construction of columns (three of them would make up a complete circle). They are often stamped with the manufacturer’s or the consul’s seal, making it relatively easy to determine their chronology.
The exclusive use of brick defined a specific construction technique, the opus testaceum, and its industrial manufacture produced an enormous diversity of pieces that in many cases made this material prevail over stone in Roman construction, especially in the capital of the Empire.
At the end of the month the piece will move, but will remain, along with those of previous months, until the end of the year. The Gaudí Palace can be visited from Monday to Sunday from 10:00 to 14:00 hours and in the afternoons from 16:00 to 20:00 hours.