ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a cursory glance at the present state of knowledge on the forum adiectum. A series of campaigns between 1980 and 1987 focused on the north-east angle of what turned out to be the portico limiting this public area, while another intervention centred on part of the southern portico of the plaza. Verification of the presence of an important edifice in the central area of the upper platform would clearly modify the theory of the existence in this zone of an Ara Providentiae. Nogales Basarrate, followed by Poveda, associated the relief with the altar of Providentia but, whereas Nogales Basarrate proposed a Tiberian-Claudian date, Poveda took the altar to be Tiberian. Whatever the precise date, the combination of reliefs from Pan Caliente, the stray remnant of a bull and the Agrippa relief was agreed to belong to a templum minus presumably located at the centre of the area sacra of Calle Sagasta: that is, the forwn adiectum.
