On a day like today …

Today, 1922 years ago, a pact was made official between Quintus Licinius Silvanus Granianus and the citizens of Baetulo (Badalona), an agreement that was included in one of the most unique pieces of all that make up the permanent exhibition of our Museum, the tabula hospitalis.

Do you know this piece?

By virtue of the patronage pact contained in the tabula, we know that Quintus Licinius, a very influential and powerful figure established in the city, undertook to defend Baetulo‘s interests in front of the emperor in exchange for the support and loyalty of its inhabitants.

The document, inscribed in bronze in 98 AD, was discovered by Joaquim Font i Cussó in 1934 in an excavation in the current Plaça de l’Assemblea de Catalunya, where today is the museum and the  visitable space of the Jardí de Quint Licini.