ABSTRACT
The last archaeological excavations in the Hispano-Roman city of Valeria (Cuenca), have made it possible to exhume the remains of a monumental thermal complex. The building was ornamented with paving and wall mosaics and an elaborate marble decorative program. After its abandonment, the building was not subjected to an intense plundering. This has enabled recovering much of the marble elements composing the internal decoration of cold rooms. The total number of fragments exceeds 6000 pieces. The specific study of these pieces has consisted of the visual analysis of each one, registering their detailed description in a file where all the notable characteristics are also collected. This information has revealed the presence in many of them of various marks, traces and strokes that offer us information about the type of tools used by the Roman craftsman during the process of making the marble elements and the technical function that these tools had.
