학술논문
El fòrum romà de Iulia Libica i l’arqueologia urbana de Llivia (Cerdanya)
Document Type
Dissertation/Thesis
Author
Source
TDX (Tesis Doctorals en Xarxa)
Subject
Language
Catalan; Valencian
Abstract
1-Topographic Archaeology of Iulia Libica Until year1997, we excaved partially some settlements with structures and materials from Early Roman Empire, placed in the center of the ancient part of modern Llívia (Cerdanya), in an area situated westwards the local church. These were Camí Ral, Cal Meranges, Cal Doctor, el Carrer dels Forns and l'Hort de la Falona. In years 1997-98 we excaved another settlement, Les Colomines zona B, situated eastward the church. It were some domestical structures that flourished in the First and Second Phases (late 1th BP - middle 1th AD) with a floorplan that ajusted to the topographic conditions. In this place we identificated the remains of an hipocaustus, walls, rooms and canalizations and, amongst the pottery, terra sigillatta from Italy and southern Gaul, and a coin from emperor AVGVSTVS. On the same chronology was the l’Hort de la Rectoria's domus, sited near Carrer dels Forns, and Cal Barrier, an hypothetical industrial site far from the center of the ancient city. 2-The Forum of Iulia Libica. Historical evolution of the city. 1th and 2th AD Betwen 1997 and 2003 we delimited and excaved partially Les Colomines zona A, located besides the church. The arquitectonic studies (regular floorplan, rooms in the upper part, oriental portico's remains, a monumental acces gate with an ara and an exaedra in the meridional sector) and the objects (scultpure, crustae, sectile, epigraphic inscription, roman coinage from the emperors TIBERIVS and CLAVDIVS) lead to the conclusion that it was possibly a public building, maybe the Iulia Libica's roman city's forum from the Early Empire. This was confirmed in 2013, with a geophysical prospecction that led us exhumate several perimetral walls and the nordwest angle, with 42,50 the totally of the septentrional part. After some works inside the edification, in 2016 we discovered the temple, placed in the middle of buildings' septentrional zone, on a platform created with a transversal podium. In 2016 and 2017, we've excaved the temple only in the oriental parts of the pronaos and the cella. The remains of the cella are good conserved, with stones craftly worked and signinum's pavements in situ, the basement of an statue and perimeter walls very high. We discovered too many fragments of marble's statues of figurative style, from augustean or tiberian times, located integred in part of a late roman wall. The I. Libica's forum is in the middle of the city, its constructive tipology and decorative program are typical ot the Iulia-Claudian dinasty, is very close to the exemples of Ruscino and Lugdunum Convenarum, southern's Gaul cities, possibly with the same chronology (late 1th BP- early 1th AD), Latin rights, and possibly augustean fundation too, in this emperor's fundational politic's context, according to finds of material appeared from fonamentation's trenchs of the forum. The urbs is in a natural and pass between the Pyrenees, in the commercial circuit that probably supply luxury materials and amphorae from Narbo, and the terra sigllatta from La Graufesenque, in dependence of Gaul as a source of products. The civitas evolved in ceretans' capital and the forum in its religious, political and administrative center, in the middle of a large territory that during 1th and 2th AD transformed all kind of products to maintain the elevated costs demanded by public's center The city and the forum lasted to 2th AD, according the finds of roman coinage from DOMITIANVS (Flavian dinasty) and ANTONINVS PIVS (Antoninian dinasty).