A ocupação romana do município de Mafra

Abstract

This article presents an updated synthesis analysis on the vestiges of the Roman period identified in the municipality of Mafra, integrating itself in the research and dissemination actions of the Lisboa Romana project. The municipality of Mafra was part of the western zone of the municipium Olisiponense, with villae, rural settlements, necropolises, epigraphic monuments and abundant scattered remains that do not allow a safe classification. The oldest reference to a Roman epigraphic monument dates back to the 15th century, with a long history of collections. However, excavations are scarce, resulting almost exclusively from preventive archeology operations, limiting interpretative analysis. Attached is the corpus of the epigraphic monuments (19 monuments, 3 unpublished) and the corpus of archaeological sites from the Roman period (56 sites, 35 unpublished) and a table with 35 archaeologically unconfirmed information, which constitutes the state of knowledge in 2021. It is a dated and necessarily incomplete inventory, as they are successive fortuitous or integrated findings in archaeological works.