yesterday they found this beautiful mosaic in écija, sevilla (ancient astigi) !!!!
they were found under the city hall, and they are part of a wealthy house that had its own thermal complex!
astigi was refounded by augustus in the year 14 bc, but its origins lie with the indigenous turdetanii. it's important to know that it was born as a colonia romana, as in, a roman city, where its citizens were full-fledged roman citizens, which was something very rare to see outside of italy at tha time. it also was the capital of the conventus astigitanus, one of the divisions of the province of baetica, the wealthiest and most populated of the hispanic provinces (and the only one that was senatorial, as in it wasn't governed by a governor but the senate itself). as you can imagine, it was one of the most important cities in hispania, and its location was also quite important, as it lied on the via augusta, about halfway between corduba (modern córdoba), capital of baetica, and hispalis (modern sevilla), second most important city in baetica and fellow capital of a conventus.
