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

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 centuries 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range, given the inaccuracies (regarding chronology, typology, and geographical distributions) found in former, out-of-date corpora.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.