Local quarries and ornamental stones used in architecture and epigraphy in labitolosa (Conventus caesaraugustanus, provincia hispania citerior)

Abstract

Public buildings from Labitolosa underwent a significant process of monumentalization in the second half of the 1st century A.D. This paper focuses on the geological identification of the ornamental rocks used in the Curia and in Baths I. Analyses carried out indicate an exclusive use of Hispanic limestones: so-called Santa Tecla stone as well as limestone quarried in Aguinalíu where ancient pits have been found. Questions regarding the cost of the marble covering of the Baths are also examined.