ABSTRACT
The purpose of the new campaigns has been to determine the shape and dimensions of the supposed provincial forum with its huge temple, to resolve the contradictions resulting from earlier, disparate discoveries in the area, particularly of walls and other structures. As the location occurs at the beginning of a second insula north of the provincial forum, the 'basilica' lies a short distance behind the provincial forum. The scheme of a rectangular enclosed precinct, as adopted at Augusta Emerita, belongs with similar complexes designed on the model of the theatre of Pompey, with its temenos girt by lateral porticoes, and is reproduced in the first of the imperial forums, the Forum Iulium. The voluntary adoption of the same concept at Augusta Emerita shows an intentional attempt to reflect contemporary ideology at Rome and points with great probability to the influence of L. Fulcinius Trio, who had an intimate knowledge of Tiberian policy.
