RESTAURACIÓN DE LAS CAMAS DEL BAÑO DE COMARES

The most important part of the Bath of Comares is the bayt al-maslaj, popularly known as the Room of the Beds, because of the two large, slightly raised bed-chambers on each side of the main room.

The western bed has been restored. It is made up of a central panel of tiles with glazed ceramics in white, black, blue, green, and honey, positioned in diamond formation, which in a square format, measuring 4.5 x 4.5 cm, form eight longwise paths which alternate between whites and colours such as black, blue and green until we come to the central honey-coloured path.

The restoration was affected by the slope of the floor of the bed, and once an emergency fixing-in-place had been done, each of the pieces was numbered and referenced. The process began with the fixing of the glaze layers and the fragments at risk of being lost, the cleaning of their layer of glaze, the removal of old gypsum and cement mortars, the removal of salt and final assembly on the definitive panels.

Before reassembling the bed, the gypsum and cement mortars were scraped back to the original level.