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The largest butterfly in Europe and an Iberian cauldron shaped man are the salient parts of the quarter in Museums A couple Butterfly Wings Bird Goliath this quarter is exposed at the Museum of Ethnography and Natural Sciences, and cauldron whose characteristic is their way of man in Archaeology In advocacy of cultural heritage in Jumilla, the Municipal Museum Jerónimo Molina, in its two sections of Ethnography and Archaeology, organized as usual, the presentation of the two parts the quarter, this time, with the largest butterfly species in Europe, and a cauldron of the Iberian period.

On the one hand, the Museum of Ethnography and Natural Sciences couple Butterfly Wings Bird Goliath, by the museum director, Cayetano Herrero, conservative area of ​​entomology, Francisco Lencina was presented, and the Head of Culture Andres Martinez.

These are two very prominent individuals, since this species is the flying butterfly day larger Europe.

The male and female are very different species and can reach a diameter of 28 centimeters.

These two butterflies belong to the collection of Francisco González López, and were collected in the year 1968, by an exchange with the Natural History Museum Brithis London.

Moreover, in the Museum of Archaeology, was the presentation of the piece of this section by the director, Emiliano Hernandez and Head of Culture, Andrés Martínez.

As explained by the director for this quarter in the museum a censer of the Iberian era, whose peculiarity is the way man will stand.

These pieces usually always have shaped woman, they represent the Mother Goddess, the creator of life, ie the Greek Demeter or the Punic Tanit.

The piece of Jumilla, emphasizes that departs from the generality of the performances, with a male figure, as denoting the incisions beard, hair tonsured and mantle plywood covering it, elements of the Iberian man.

This specimen was found in the deposit offerings Sanctuary Coimbra del Barranco Ancho, in 1993, and as a curiosity, the museum director explained that the worship of the goddess Tanit, continued in the area, through the invocation Grandma Santa Ana.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Jumilla