LOCATION DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE AUGUSTA EMERITA (MERIDA, SPAIN)

This dataset is based on houses from the Roman colony of Augusta Emerita (ca. B.C 25- A.D. 382) [1]. These dates are not chosen randomly: 25 B.C. saw the foundation ex nihilo of the settlement, according to Cass. Dio., Hist. 53.26.1[2], and A.D. 382, the last time a name of a vicarius is attested in the epigraphy[3]. The remains from Augusta Emerita are particularity well suited to GIS analysis of this type because the site was occupied for more than two thousand years and was never abandoned, while also being occupied by several cultures over that time.

[1] All documentation based on La arquitectura doméstica de Augusta Emerita (2015 Phd) https://dehesa.unex.es/handle/10662/2670# 

[2] The Duoviri's first couple is evidenced ca.20 B.C. from the fragment of the Fasti duovirales: A. Stylow and A. Ventura, “Los hallazgos epigráficos”, in R. Ayerbe, T. Barrientos and F. Palma (edd.), El foro de Augusta Emerita. Génesis y evolución de sus recintos monumentales (Mérida 2009) 453-523.

[3] L. Hidalgo and G. Méndez, “Octavius Clarus, un nuevo Vicarius Hispaniarum en Augusta Emerita”, Mérida. Excavaciones Arqueológicas 8 (2005) 547-64.