La judería nueva de Calatayud. Visión arqueológica

The Jewish aljama in Calatayud was the most impor- tant of Aragon, immediately behind that of Zaragoza. The Jewish quarter was located from historical sour- ces inside the city walls, in an area of rough terrain in the northwestern part. Although the Jewish quarter had already been the subject of some archaeological research, between years 2005 and 2008, we were able to dig three contiguous places located a few meters from the old gate of Toledo. There has been documenting a dense urban weave that responds to an extension to outside the city. His occupation is initiated as early on the early fourteenth century and the end clearly in the year 1362, being destroyed during the siege of Calatayud in the War of the Two Peters. The findings of several ceramic fragments of Hanukiah candle oil lamps inside the houses exca- vated, items only used by the Jewish community, allow us to raise the reality of an extension to the outside of the Jewish quarter of Burgimalaco early fourteenth century.