International audienceThis volume, the result of a collaboration between specialists from different areas (archaeology, history, papyrology, philology, epigraphy), attempts to define and present, from a focal point fixed on the concept of the statio and its physical composition, the functional spaces within which took place contacts between representatives of authority and local populations throughout the Roman Empire. The questions asked and the topics covered illustrate clearly the diversity and range of the subject: to what type of edifice is a custom’s officer referring when he describes himself as operating in a statio, or a soldier dedicating a votive monument to the Genius of his statio, or the Tyrians installed in Rome or in Pozzuol...