CORPUS MILLIARIORUM BAETICAE MILIARIOS Y POLÍTICA VIARIA EN LA HISPANIA ULTERIOR BAETICA EN ÉPOCA IMPERIAL (S. I-IV)

Abstract

This paper deals with the issue of the articulation of roads and territory in Baetica through the
analysis of epigraphic and archaeological evidence for the Imperial periods (1st to 4th centurie 

AD). It seeks to fulfil two main aims: Firstly, to carry out an exhaustive and critical review of the
inscriptions catalogued as milestones that belonged to the Roman province of Hispania Ulterior
Baetica in all its chronological range, given the inaccuracies (regarding chronology, typology, and
geographical distributions) found in former, out-of-date corpora. Secondly, to perform a quantitative
and territorial analysis of these reviewed evidence placed into its geographical context in order
to explore the incidence of emperors in the road policy.
Such a procedure will enable me to propose a general development of the management and development
of roads in Baetica and to draw (much needed) comparisons with other provinces in Hispania
and within the Empire, in order to contextualise these results at an imperial scale of analysis.