Nuevas aportaciones para el conocimiento de las termas de Arucci (Aroche, Huelva)

Abstract

The thermal-baths of the Roman city of Arucci is constituted as an interesting architectural complex within this category of public buildings in the hispanian context. Located in one of the highest levels of the city, this space dedicated to the bathroom has been delimited and partially excavated during various excavations campaings and geophysical surveys framed in different research projects. The results of the latest activities are added to those already known, which has made it possible to identify numerous rooms, piscinae, latrinae, apodyterium, cisternae, and so on, that brings us closer to knowing the functionality and functioning of the thermal-baths in their time of activity. From the chronological point of view, the building is estructured in two areas, the first one being built at a previus time in the second half of the 1st century AD; and the second one in the monumentalizing impulse that undergoes the city in Flavian era, and maintain his use until his abandonment in the first quarter of 3rd century AD.