The forensic temples of the Baetica: examples of a hierarchical public architecture

• Main Author: Francisco Marfil Vázquez
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Universidad de Huelva 2021-06-01
• Series: Onoba. Revista de Arqueología y Antigüedad
• Subjects: hispania, arquitectura provincial, aedes, monumentalidad, evergetismo
• Online Access: http://www.uhu.es/publicaciones/ojs/index.php/onoba/article/view/4873

<p>The Roman forensic complex has been defined as the space of maximum political and social expression of its urban world, especially in its provincial aspect, where it should reflect the own dominion that Rome exercised over the territory. Within these groups, the aedes is situated as a privileged building, dominating a monumentalized and hierarchical landscape in which a special care will be placed in the choice and combination of the materials, elements and symbology of each of the buildings on the forum. Its significance as the maximum exponent of forensic spaces place it, as it could not be otherwise, as the image of its city, its population and its territory. In this sense, the comparative analysis of all the templar buildings found in the Betic and Hispanic forensic context will provide us with the possibility of knowing how the government of the provinces was articulated, the proper organization or categorization of their cities based on their functions political-administrative, the difference between the elites of the small municipia and the capital of the provincial demarcations themselves, and even the general comparison of the three Hispanic provinces.</p>