Marksteine in Munigua

Festlegungen und Gesichtspunkte für die Platzierung von Bauten in der kaiserzeitlichen Stadt

Abstract

In the central area of the municipium flavium muniguense/Munigua nine stones are preserved, one of which has the usual cross-shaped markings on its surface, and can therefore be considered as boundary stones corresponding to the Latin term terminus. They are often preserved in situ. Thus, in this article they will be closely observed as they can provide clues for the analysis of the planning processes of the city in early imperial times, especially because they are concentrated in the area of the square in front of the Temple of Mercury, as well as along the Forum Alley and an adjacent area including the Two-Storey Portico for which it was always considered a public function and where, apparently, in the time of Domitian the bronze tablets of the municipal law were displayed. The boundary markers/termini thus designate important points in the layout of the political centre of the city. They belong to a planning operation in the firts half of the 1^st century AD by the senate of what was then still a civitas peregrina, but had a concrete idea of the future scape of the city yet at this moment.