The Capitolium at Baelo Claudia (Bolonia): new data from the sculptures

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The excavations carried out between 1917 and 1921 at Baelo Claudia (Bolonia, Tarifa, province of Cádiz)¹ were led by P. Paris and his team² working with the Anglo-French archaeologist G. Bonsor³ and with A. Laumonier and R. Ricard, as well as with Cayetano de Mergelina⁴ in 1918-19. Work focused on the N part of the forum where three temples were exposed.5 A minor intervention was carried out in the theatre together with more extensive excavations in the area of the fish-salting factory that included two domus, and in the E necropolis. The outcome was two publications, one on the city,⁶ the other on the necropolis,⁷ that are outstanding for those days.