Vivir y trabajar. Arquitectura doméstica y urbanística de las ciudades portuarias de las provincias Baetica y Lusitania

Abstract

The exercises in critical historic-archaeological have been practically unaware of the roman domestic architecture of the ports cities of theHispania’s Southwest, so we are in a research line still open and developing. This paper focus on the analysis of domestic building from the basis in which roman housing is conceived such a dynamic whole. This aim implies the use of a methodology with a particular premise: archaeological remains must be studied equally the architectural systems, the decorative programme and theinstrumentum domesticum. This perspective consents, equally, a special attention to the relationships between the houses and the urban lay out and the transformations operated in roman domestic architecture in a diachronic way. The typology of the domestic architecture of the port cities of Baetica and Lusitania answer to a tripartite design: factory-houses, houses with upper floors and store in down floors and houses with tabernae. The discussion on the inhabitants is far from complete, but at least an approximation can be made both from the classical literary sources and from disciplines such as epigraphy and funerary statuary iconology. The use of the GIS will assists the realization of new thematic cartography on the urban domestic landscape.