出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：Circular basins are very common functional and decorative elements in the Roman world, where they were referred to as labra . Rectangular basins have been often included within this category, but it is preferable to use the term alvei for them. Spanish historiography has not paid much attention to these elements, which is due more to a problem of publication than to an absence of these elements in the archaeological record. Sometimes, the terminological confusion has led to the identification of the fountains not by the architectural or sculptural elements from which the water spouted but by the space where they were placed. The historiography review and the reassessment of the archaeological records of the labra documented in the Iberian Peninsula, both in public and private spaces, has made it possible to analyze their origin, typology, function and material, as well as their archaeological context. Made of different varieties of both local and imported marmora , the fountain basins, in different sizes and morphologies, are usually linked to the roman baths to atriums and peristyles.
