The Roman imperial cult is an institution of a religious and political character based on the worship of Roman emperors as divinities, as well as on glorifying the imperial power through propaganda with the idea of unifying communities and strengthening the Roman authority throughout the Empire. This work reviews and analyses the archaeological evidence for the establishment of the Roman imperial cult in Salona, the capital city of the Roman province of Dalmatia. First traces of the imperial cult in Salona reach as far back as the rule of emperor Augustus. However, it wasn't until his successor Tiberius and subsequent ruling members of the Julio-Claudian dynasty came to power that the imperial cult in the capital city flourished and continued to do so throughout the principate and early dominate. Various remains of imperial statues and portraits, architectural remains of imperial buildings, and epigraphic inscriptions of priests and collegia in service of the cult show that the imperial cult in Salona had been sufficiently established and had steadily progressed and conformed to the ever-present changes brought on by the Empire's many rulers.