ABSTRACT
Amid the recent flurry of archaeological exploration at Cordoba one of the most spectacular advances has been the recognition of a new forum, the fifth such plaza be identified at Roman Corduba. The key architectonic fragment is what looks to be the centre of a marble antefix similar to the antefixes that adorned the temple of Mars Ultor. The fact that all this points to a complex modelled on a Roman prototype has an obvious bearing on the two parallel examples that have come to light at Emerita and Tarraco. As for the location of the municipal temple, a structure that must have existed at Corduba in common with other centres of Roman Spain, the status of the temple in calle Claudio Marcelo remains a perennial problem. The forum nouum at Corduba with the architectural complex it has revealed is of exceptional interest for the way it illuminates so many problems at similar centres elsewhere.
