Baelo Claudia y su personalidad ciudadana y urbana

Abstract

The article comes back on the definition of Baelo Claudia as a strictly Roman town and advocates a properly Punico-Roman identity. The setting into evidence of that cultural hybridity enables one to recognise in the forum’s temples the typical cluster of three temples characteristic of the Punico- Roman towns of North Africa (Sufetula, Leptis Magna) and not a nondescript Capitol.

Keywords

• Roman Hispania
• Hispano-Roman urbanism
• cultural hybridity
• ethnicity in an urban environment
• religious architecture
• Capitol