HISTORY

THE MOSAIC OF PANXÓN, AN INCREDIBLE STORY…

The Roman Mosaic of Panxón is a piece from the 3rd century A.D., the only representation of the marine «musivario» works in the entire metropolitan area of Vigo, with an incalculable historical value. Of great quality, it represents a fish, swimming in the marine waters, accompanied by clams and by its outline it is deduced that it would be part of a much larger mosaic, evidencing the high degree of Romanization of the site of O Castro, in Panxón (Val Miñor, Galicia).

Found in that place by chance in the 19th century by the Puga family, it later passed (attached to a table) to the collection of the Blanco-Cicerón family in A Coruña, losing track of it after its sale at auction and unfortunate departure from Spain, until just two years ago one of the founding members of our Association found the piece in a private collection in New York (Carlton Hobbs) and began the process for its repatriation to the place from which it should never have left.

The Mosaic coincides with the one referred to at the time by scholars of the stature of Professor Acuña Castroviejo (among other publications, «Vigo en su Historia«, pp. 49 to 53) and has been inspected in situ by Dr. Carlos Picón, at the time head of ancient art at the Metropolitan Museum of New York (now director of the Colnaghi gallery in said city), confirming its age, origin and valuation.