Columns and "rotae" in Tarraco made with granite from the Troad

Isabel Rodà de Llanza ^[3] ^[1] ; Patrizio Pensabene ^[2] ; J. Á. Domingo ^[2]
1. [1] Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  
  Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
  
  Barcelona, España
2. [2] Università de Roma La Sapienza
  
  Università de Roma La Sapienza
  
  Roma Capitale, Italia
3. [3] Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC)
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Localización: Interdisciplinary studies on ancient stone: proceedings of the IX Association for the Study of Marbles and Other Stones in Antiquity (ASMOSIA) Conference (Tarragona 2009) / coord. por Anna Gutiérrez García-Moreno, María Pilar Lapuente Mercadal, Isabel Rodà de Llanza, 2012, ISBN 978-84-939033-8-1, págs. 210-227
Idioma: inglés
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- A large number of granite shafts from the Troad are preserved in Tarraco. Many of them belong to a very similar typology and size, meaning that they must have come from the same building. We propose that this was the "porticus in summa cavea" of the amphitheatre or more probably the portico of the representational square in the provincial forum. Furthermore, the presence of "rotae" from the paving of the worship hall of that forum allows us to document a restoration of this area at the same time as we attest the architectural and decorative similarities to the "Templum Pacis" in Roma. Analysis of these pieces also allows us to study their reuse in the early christian and Visigothic periods, as well as the probable export of some shafts to other towns during the mediaeval period.