IMPERIAL INTERVENTION IN THE CONVENTUAL CAPITALS OF HISPANIA

The presence of Roman emperors in the major cities of the Iberian Peninsula receives only very rare coverage. In every city, however, there was an almost constant physical presence of the emperor and his environment through the organization of the conventus iuridici, the use of official iconography, mutations in the religious sphere, the extension of Princeps' indulgentia giving individual treatment to each community and the spread of urban models. These interventions would become evident in the second century following the designation of the curatores. An evaluation of the known evidence shows that the status of conventual city did not determine its relationship with the emperor, for better or for worse.