The City in the Roman West, c.250 BC-c.AD 250 by Ray Laurence

Author:Ray Laurence [Laurence, Ray]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781139184458
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-04-24T00:00:00+00:00

Not every forum needed a temple to provide its religious focus. The hillfort of Ruscino, near Perpignan in the eastern Pyrenees, developed a forum with a basilica and an array of imperial statues (see below for discussion). 48 The phase of urban grandeur at Ruscino was short-lived with no further monuments constructed after the first century AD, and in the second century the town gradually disintegrated. 49 However, what this site shows is that the concept of a forum with a basilica and imperial statuary could penetrate to the remoter parts of the western provinces and was not confined to the Mediterranean coastal strip (compare Segobriga below). This pattern is confirmed by Glanum, twenty kilometres north-east of Arles. The town developed a forum at its centre in the last decade of the first century BC. 50 This was developed with two temples and a colonnaded space at right angles to them (fig. 7.7). Subsequently, in the first century AD a basilica was built to enhance the facilities in the centre of this town.

7.7 Glanum: the forum developed as a central space into which temples were added. This example shows an interpretation of Roman urbanism that could be described as a hybrid form, or involved a smaller investment of resources in the development of a rectilinear space for the forum.

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