Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

La Torre de Augusto en la Campa Torres (Gijón, Asturias). Las antiguas excavaciones y el epígrafe de Calpurnio Pisón

2005; Spanish National Research Council; Volume: 78; Issue: 191-192 Linguagem: Espanhol

10.3989/aespa.2005.v78.77

1988-3110

Carmen Fernández Ochoa, Ángel Morillo Cérdán, Ángel Villa Valdés,

Archaeological and Geological Studies

Through the historiographic data and the architectonic and archaeologic study of the Roman remains found during the 18th and 19th Centuries, today disappeared, we present here an hypothesis about the Augustean construction of a big tower in Campa Torres. This would be identified as a lighthouse controlling the entrance of the Gijon's bay. The commemorative stone of Cn. Calpurnius Piso (CIL II, 2703), dated on 9-10 AD, was founded in this building. We cannot accept the identification of this monument as one of the wellknown Arae Sestianae. This light-house, with a symbolic character as well a purpose of informing to the mariners the access of the harbour, would be erected in a militarized region recently conquered.