Session: #803

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Too often, the ancient city is approached as a "still photo", where the most monumental, homogeneous or best known phases of research are the most important. In this way, dynamics that are probably very frequent in everyday urban life, such as changes of ownership, annexations, boundaries, abuses by private individuals in the occupation of space, etc., go unnoticed. Some surviving legal sources show the concern for urban planning and order, while archaeology documents some of these processes.
In this way, the analysis of the urban framework of a Roman city can be approached from a structural point of view, tracing its configuration through multiple sources of information. Furthermore, the composition of the civic nuclei can be studied by analysing the elements that made them up, defining the spaces according to their ownership and purpose.
This session aims to bring together people who study the processes of change in Roman city spaces from the perspective of archaeological, legal, epigraphic and textual criticism studies. We want to share our experiences in different fields of research and sources of information, so we encourage the presentation of both case studies and reflections on the main issues intrinsic to this subject. We welcome papers that address topics such as land ownership, the transfer of property, the disaffection of real estate or the transformation of the use of plots of land in Roman urban contexts. Our intention is to create an interdisciplinary discussion environment in which to present, among other themes, the tools available to define the purpose of land, the structural transformations of a specific building or of multiple spatially related urban spaces. We are also interested in the analysis of textual, epigraphic and legal sources that contextualise and frame the evolution of a given urban framework.

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