Novetats epigràfiques de Barcino

Abstract

A new inscription has been documented in a wall of the NW city-gate of the Roman colony Barcino (Barcelona, Spain). The text seems to refer to the Legio IIII that, with the legions VI and X, were employed massively to build the infrastructures necessary for the reorganization of the NE of Spain, wanted by Augustus at the end of the Cantabrian wars. Such types of legionary marks have been documented elsewhere in the province and the new finding would be, therefore, the confirmation of a point already postulated by researchers, about the participation of the legion IIII in the construction of Barcelona. Furthermore, this type of inscription also agrees with some construction characteristic detected in the first city wall, inherited from the military tradition.