Description
Located in the vicinity of the city of Mengibar, a stone's throw from the Guadalquivir and next to the so-called "Way of the Romans," is the Arc de Jano or "Ianus Augustus," the door to the Betics while Rome was "owner of the known world." This is a first order territorial marker located next to the Roman road of the Via Augusta, the point from which the distances were measured and marked by militaries. It was also the limit place between the provinces of the Senatorial Betica and the Imperial Tarraconense.
The work for its location, carried out by the University Institute of Research in Iberian Archaeology of the University of Jaén with the support of the City of Mengíbar, began in 2018. In relation to its characteristics, it is proposed that the foundation found allows to interpret a large arc of 14.80 meters long, almost 5 meters wide and a single central vanity of 5.15 meters, where the Via Augusta was running.
The relevance of this finding served to be declared, with great haste (2019), as Good of Cultural Interest.
