Abstract
Archaeological evidence discovered in the lower levels at the church of Santa Margarida corresponding to a baptismal pool, as well as a monumental tomb covered with a funerary mosaic or lauda, suggest that the baptistery of the episcopium of Empúries was located here and that the tomb could have belonged to one of the first Emporitan bishops. These archaeological remains were part of a much more extensive occupation than we were aware about thanks to the photointerpretation and geophysical prospections carried out on adjacent land, with diverse buildings organised by streets or circulation paths, which spread as far as the lower part of the promontory. The displacement of part of the habitat and of the episcopal area to this sector of Empúries could have been caused by the topographical limitations of the nucleus of Sant Marti d’Empúries and probably also by the existence of an estuary zone which, during the 4th to 7th centuries A.D., still existed up to the base of Santa Margarida.
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