La arquitectura doméstica urbana en época romana en la Provincia Baetica

Abstract

The private Roman architecture in the urban World has got only just attention by the researchers who have come showing a major interest so much for urban areas of extraordinary beauty -buildings of public character -, as for those private environments built in the rural spaces. The absence of research Works, and on the contrary, the scientific significance of the archaeological evidences of this domestic collections motivated us to initiate the research, which departing from the analysis of the private architecture in the general context of the western Mediterranean, It approached us to the principal study of the work: the Baetica Province. To understand the private architecture of the Baetica cities, it was necessary to understand other many aspects that were developed in the city and in the private houses, like: urban development, architectonic techniques or decorative. The conclusions extracted of this research have a great scientific interest, not only for the particularities that demonstrates its domestic architecture in the South of Hispania, but also for its links with the North of Africa and the center of the imperial power, the Italian Peninsula.