La Torre de Augusto en la Campa Torres (Gijón, Asturias). Las antiguas excavaciones y el epígrafe de Calpurnio Pisón

Carmen Fernández Ochoa; Ángel Morillo Cerdán; Ángel Villa Valdés

doi:10.3989/aespa.2005.v78.77

La Torre de Augusto en la Campa Torres (Gijón, Asturias). Las antiguas excavaciones y el epígrafe de Calpurnio Pisón

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Carmen Fernández Ochoa Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Ángel Morillo Cerdán Universidad de León
Ángel Villa Valdés Consejería de Cultura. Principado de Asturias

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https://doi.org/10.3989/aespa.2005.v78.77

Keywords:

Historiography, Asturia, port, light-house, commemorative stone, Arae Sestianae, Roman Army

Abstract

Through the historiographic data and the architectonic and archaeologic study of the Roman remains found during the 18th and 19th Centuries, today disappeared, we present here an hypothesis about the Augustean construction of a big tower in Campa Torres. This would be identified as a lighthouse controlling the entrance of the Gijón's bay. The commemorative stone of Cn. Calpurnius Piso (CIL II, 2703), dated on 9-10 AD, was founded in this building. We cannot accept the identification of this monument as one of the wellknown Arae Sestianae. This light-house, with a symbolic character as well a purpose of informing to the mariners the access of the harbour, would be erected in a militarized region recently conquered.

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2005-12-30

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Fernández Ochoa, C., Morillo Cerdán, Ángel, & Villa Valdés, Ángel. (2005). La Torre de Augusto en la Campa Torres (Gijón, Asturias). Las antiguas excavaciones y el epígrafe de Calpurnio Pisón. Archivo Español De Arqueología, 78(191-192), 129–146. https://doi.org/10.3989/aespa.2005.v78.77

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Vol. 78 No. 191-192 (2005)

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