Marbella

MARBELLA Málaga, Spain.

On the Mediterranean coasts SW of Málaga. Not mentioned in literary sources. Some 6.4 km W of the town are the remains of a Roman villa. Among its mosaics is one with representations of culinary themes: a simpulum (small ladle), a batillum (chafing dish), a tripod, oinochoai, a hearth; also spits, onions, rabbits, game, and fish. The mosaic dates from the first half of the 2d c.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

A. García y Bellido, “El mosaico de tema culinario de Marbella,” Hommages à Marcel Renard III, Latomus (1969) 240-46PI.

J. ARCE