Javier Arce's scientific contributions

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The Roman villa at Cercadilla, a huge complex dated from the very beginning of IVth century, has just been the object of a highly valuable publication by R. Hidalgo. This provides new evidence for Cordoba's prosperity, which city Diocletian promoted to capital of Baetica, to be later superseded in that function by Hispalis under Constantius II. How...

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... At Córdoba, recent research has identified the fourth-century cathedral with the archaeological site of Cercadilla, located in the western suburbs of the city (Marfil 2000). Leaving aside the complex identification of this monumental building (Arce 1997(Arce , 2010Hidalgo 2014;Hidalgo and Ventura 1994), there is no evidence at all that this site had any Christian use in the fourth century and still less that it could have been the residence of Bishop Osius, as some have proposed. At a certain moment, probably during the sixth century, a church was built over the ruins of the building, and it was associated with a funerary area where at least one bishop of the city was buried in 549 (Hidalgo 2002). ...