ABSTRACT
More important was the work of the noted German archaeologist, A. Schulten, who correctly concluded that the area of the Cathedral was where the Legio VII had been encamped but placed the surmised Temple of Jupiter down the Cathedral nave and the 'Temple of Augustus'. Now that the 'Temple of Augustus' has been definitively located down the nave of the mediaeval Cathedral of Tarragona, Mar's identification of a second temple on the upper level looks a lost cause. Analysis of architectonic components has been plagued from the start by an insurmountable problem, the circumstance that the vast majority of the relevant data occurs outside a firm archaeological context and is broadcast over a wide area. The enlarged picture at Tarraco, with the location, date and archaeological context of the 'Temple of Augustus' now revealed within an enclosure amply documented by surviving remains, finally confirms what had hitherto been largely informed inference or educated conjecture.
