The municipium flavium muniguense/Munigua (Villanueva del Río y Minas) is located about 50 km northeast of Seville/Andalusia in the first foothills of the Sierra Morena. Founded in the 4th century BC, the site was inhabited until the Islamic Middle Ages. Its history, which goes back more than a thousand years, is marked by the Roman era. The archaeological evidence so far points to the period between the 1st century BC and the 4th century AD. Since 1956, it has been entrusted by the Spanish antiquities authorities to the scholars of the Madrid Department of the German Archaeological Institute/Deutsches Archäologisches Institut as a research project, who have carried out archaeological research there in annual campaigns. During this time, different focal points emerged. At the beginning, from 1956 to 1977, the research concentrated on topographical questions, from 1967 to 2011 on housing and the necropolis (1967-1996), and from 1999 to 2011 the aim was exploring the economic bases of the city. In view of the advanced state of knowledge achieved, with half a dozen books and more than 100 scientific articles, a project for the 3D reconstruction of the city's buildings was launched. This research is particularly concerned with the functionality of the buildings. The baths and the forum, which are dealt with in detail in this volume, are part of this project.On the basis of detailed building descriptions, concrete clues emerged in each case for the separation of the building phases and for their chronology. Reconstructions in 3D format complete the picture. Methodically, the approach is based on the combination of conventional documentation methods with new structure-from-motion techniques. For the 3D reconstructions, the program SketchUp was used. The conditions and requirements for the use of these tools are described in separate contributions by Chr. Hartl-Reiter, D. Schäffler and H. Ruipérez. C. Basas presents the pottery finds from the baths.The volume describes the development of a local settlement into a Roman town within the framework of its set theme. This results not least from the inclusion of the surrounding streets as well as the statuary in the buildings. The baths are the first public building to be erected in Munigua. This took place in the middle of the 1st century AD, probably during the reign of Emperor Claudius (41-54 AD). In the period that followed, the building was repeatedly rebuilt, and a total of four phases can be distinguished. Construction of the forum began in the early Flavian period, probably during the reign of Emperor Vespasian (69-79 AD), i.e. one generation later. The date is so close to the granting of Latin legal status to the whole of Hispania, as reported by Pliny (nat. Hist. III 30), that a connection seems likely. However, the investigation shows that the forum was not functional, as it fell victim to a construction stop that was to last until the 90’s AD. Only then was it completed, probably in the time of Emperor Domitian (81-96 AD). The building inscription of L. Valerius Firmus has been preserved, as well as the endowment inscription for the Sacellum of the Dis Pater by L. Aelius Fronto. They document not only the financing of the public buildings by private patrons but also their design and furnishing, which could be carried out gradually. weiterlesen