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=== Forum of Tiberius === The most outstanding work in the time of [[Tiberius]] (14 A.D. - 37) was the remodeling of the ''forum'', which was enlarged by designing a large rectangle of more than 50 meters on the western side, which housed tents built with [[ashlar]] masonry and provided with a basement. Its entire perimeter housed a double interior ''portico'' that may have been closed to the south with a large imperial temple with a double colonnade [[peristyle]], although the configuration of the south side and presence of the temple is still conjectural. It was paved with limestone slabs and built with various techniques of rigging: ''[[opus vittatum]]'', ''[[opus africanum]]'' and [[Roman concrete|''opus caementicium'']] or [[Roman concrete]]. The ''forum'' of Tiberius housed, in addition to the temple, other buildings and monuments of representative and institutional character. Traces of the ''[[curia]]'' building and pedestals supporting an iconographic sculptural program dedicated to Augustus, his family and his successors have been traced. Near the maximum sewer that runs under the forum was found a statue of a boy from the time of [[Nero]] or [[Domitian]], whom it could represent.<ref name=":0" /> On the other hand, there is a cereal storage area to the north of the forum, which was accessed from the river port by means of a monumental staircase with a triple-passage door. The remains of this stairway can be seen in the [[Caesaragusta River Port Museum]]. Finally, in the excavations of the [[Museo Goya - Colecci贸n Ibercaja - Museo Cam贸n Aznar|''Palacio de los Pardo'']], current site of the [[Museo Goya - Colecci贸n Ibercaja - Museo Cam贸n Aznar|Cam贸n Aznar Museum]], remains of a wall were found at the end of the 20th century that would have formed part of a temple or basilica and was perhaps the most relevant building of a forensic complex of a religious nature, and not commercial as would be that of the [[Plaza of Our Lady of the Pillar|Plaza de las Catedrales]]. According to another theory of the location of the cardo, it could start from this forum and not need the [[Setback (architecture)|setback]] that would lead to the door Cinegia from the street of Don Jaime I (also called San Gil), depending on the hypothesis and planimetry proposed by Maria Pilar Galve in 2004.<ref>Mar铆a Pilar Galve, 芦Una ciudad consolidada: ''Caesaragusta'' a mediados del siglo I禄, ''Zaragoza. Visiones de una ciudad'', Zaragoza, Archivo-Biblioteca-Hermeroteca. Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza, 2004. ''Apud'' Fat谩s (dir.) ''et alii'', ''Gu铆a Hist贸rico-Art铆stica de Zaragoza'', ed. cit. from 2008, pp. 672 and FIG. 21 and bibliography p. 843.</ref>
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