"Foederatos Tarracenses": sobre una comunidad de la Tarraconense en los listados de la "Naturalis Historia" de Plinio el Viejo [Gerión, 35-2, 2017, pp. 461-470] (original) (raw)
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in: Revista de Historiografía 25, pp. 317-341. Dossier: Las ciudades del poder en Hispania, 2016
The information provided by the epigraphic corpus from Tarraco allows us to observe the political integration processes implemented during the Imperial period by its "ciues" and the civic communities attached to its provincial administration. This paper analyses these processes using sources concerning "Tarraconenses and 'Hispani/-ae Tarraconenses' ", specifically 73 inscriptions from this epigraphic corpus and 5 external documents, with reference to civic origin ("origo") and/or "conventus" of provenance ("ex conuentu"), residence or domicile ("domus"), or place of birth ("natio")
Hispania Sacra, 2023
Este artículo analiza la lista episcopal de época tardoantigua de la sede de Tarragona contenida en el Ms. 2610 de la Biblioteca Universitaria de Salamanca. Para ello, se contrasta la evidencia de los obispos citados con otras fuentes literarias y epigráficas en una búsqueda por conocer de manera precisa y científica los ocupantes de la silla episcopal tarraconense previos a la llegada de los musulmanes a la península ibérica. Finalmente, se formula una renovada nomina de los obispos de Tarragona en época romana y visigoda elaborada mediante la conjunción de los datos recogidos en este manuscrito y las informaciones suministradas por otras fuentes.
El ambiente epigráfico del foro "colonial" de Tarraco durante las épocas augustea y julio-claudia
Lucentum, 2019
Resumen La reciente actualización del corpus epigráfico de Tarraco por Géza Alföldy es un excelente punto de partida para desarrollar planteamientos como el que aquí se presenta. Este estudio se basa en un análisis de las inscripciones, poniendo especial atención a sus contextos topográficos originales y a la manufactura de sus soportes monumentales, siguiendo la hipótesis original de G. C. Susini. Por lo tanto, se presenta una perspectiva de los monumentos epigráficos erigidos en el foro de la colonia Tarraco en la época augustea y julio-claudia, un período trascendental en la configuración de la imagen pública de la ciudad. Los principales objetivos de esta contribución son determinar las tipologías, los comitentes y los usuarios de la epigrafía forense en la ciudad a comienzos del siglo I d. C. Palabras clave. Ambiente epigráfico; culto imperial; estatuas; monumentos honoríficos. Abstract The recent update of the epigraphic corpus of Tarraco by Géza Alföldy is an excellent starting point for developing this proposal. It is based on an analysis of the inscriptions, paying special attention to their original topographic contexts and the manufacture of their monumental supports, following G. C. Susini’s original hypothesis. Thus, we aim to present a perspective of the epigraphic monuments erected in the forum of the colonia Tarraco in the Augustan era, a transcendental period in the configuration of the town’s public image. The main objectives of this contribution are to determine the typologies, who was responsible for commissioning the pieces, and who were the users of forum epigraphy in the town at the beginning of the 1st century AD. Key words. Epigraphic environment; imperial cult; statues; honorific monuments.
El estudio del territorio de la Tarraconensis durante la Antigüedad tardía: un estado de la cuestión
Hispania Antiqua, 2022
If in the past the realization of states of the art was one more typology in the historical discipline, no one has continued this work with regard to Visigothic studies. Faced with this problem, this paper seeks to show the different research currents, main authors and reference works and to detail how the historical analysis of the Visigothic period has been treated in the north-eastern sector of the Iberian Peninsula. To this end, we have analysed the publications that have appeared in the last 25 years (1996-2021) on Visigothic studies, always taking the territory of Tarraconensis as a reference.
English The aim of this book is to present an ‘archaeomorphological’ and historical study of the rural hinterland of the ancient civitas of Tarraco during the Late Republican or Late Iberian period. Geographically called Camp de Tarragona, this plain runs between a chain of mountains and the Mediterranean coastline, drained by the rivers Francolí and Gaià. A wide range of historical sources (literature, epigraphy, numismatics and archaeology) have been considered, suggesting several changes in this landscape in many respects. Especially significant are the variations in the ‘settlement pattern’ from the Middle Iberian Period to the Early Empire, as shown from our archaeological data, listing sites and their chronology. The latter half of the Second Century BC becomes crucial in order to explain these changes as severe transformations in the ‘settlement pattern’ may be attached to it. Probably, they were related to a Roman cadaster, whose objective was to settle down indigenous populations in new locations, according to Rome’s main policy, at the time, on provincial exploitation. Equally important is how Tarraco consolidated itself as a real Roman civitas. From the second half of the First Century BC to the time of Augustus, pottery production (esp. wine amphorae) and new rural settlements started to develop increasing. This development was the result of the implementation of the wine industry, clearly supported by a widespread expansion of the new ‘villae system’ in Tarraco’s territorium. As soon as the archaeological material had been studied and related to the rest of our historical information, the attention focused on the morphological patterns of this region in Antiquity, from the evidence available in the present landscape (the so called ‘archaeomorphologic study’). Following the methodology established by the Centre de Recherches d’Histoire Ancienne de l’Université de Franche-Comté (Besançon, France), a main orientation (27º E to the North) has been detected in the landscape. This seems to correspond to a theoretical ‘orthogonal net’ of a centuriatio measuring 20 X 20 actus and 710 m. However, another modulation of the same centuriatio and even other orientations corresponding to other cadasters might be traced on the same landscape. I believe that this cadaster should be dated to the latter half of the Second Century BC Unfortunately, we cannot fix such a date due to the modulation of the cadaster itself, because this kind of limitatio (20 X 20 actus) does not provide a precise chronology. Thus, our dating has to take into account the changes in the ‘settlement pattern’, namely the establishment of a cadaster, produced by the Roman intervention in the area.
Poblamiento y organización del espacio. La Tarraconense pirenaica en el siglo VI
Population and space organization: the Pyrenean Tarraconensis in the sixth century The donation and will of Vicente of Asán, dating from AD 551 and 576 respectively, are two basic documents concerning the property structure in the Visigothic period. These documents have been subjected to specialised research for nearly a century; however, the exact location of the toponyms contained in them –a fundamental point for a full understanding of the structure of Vicente's properties– remains an unsolved question. This paper tackles this problem, combining archaeological field work with the historical review of the document, as well as the study of mediaeval documentation in order to trace the survival of sixth century toponyms in the subsequent period. We can now identify with certainty approximately 50% of minor toponyms, which makes possible a historical analysis of how Vicente of Asán's patrimony was organised. His centre of interest is clearly located in the Pyrenean area of Huesca, in the La Fueva and Boltaña valleys (the ancient terrae terrantonensis and boletana of the document). Later the patrimony also included land along the Esera and Cinca valleys, reaching even the Ebro valley, with properties in the territories of Barbotum, Labitolosa, Ilerda and Caesaraugusta. From this we can infer a complementary economy between the lands on the valleys of the main rivers and the mountain areas, which allowed diversification of production and better exploitation of resources. Cattle raising was an important activity, and there was short-distance seasonal transhumance. Furthermore, the reconstruction of microtoponymy allows us, first, to define with some detail the borders of the urban territories mentioned by the texts, and second, to detect that the lines of inner mediaeval colonisation followed those documented for the Visigothic period.