Our intention with this Study Day is to offer some insight into the dialogue between the Greek world and the Iberian sphere. Let us recall the magnificent images, including female ones, which the Iberians bought, looked at and integrated into their tombs, houses and sanctuaries. These images, signs of status, may or may not have been assimilated into the Iberian iconographic language. On this occasion, we will deal with the various questions that these contacts raise in current research.
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The purpose of the seminar is to address the concept of the soul in different areas of the ancient world -Greece, India and Egypt- and in different contexts -literary, philosophical, religious- based on the analysis of written and iconographic sources. The seminar is aimed at high school and university students and the general public. Each participant will have a 15-minute presentation followed by a brief discussion. This will be followed by a guided tour of various pieces in the Museum that illustrate the passage of the deceased to the Afterlife.
The mining-metallurgical centre of Cerro de los Almadenes is located southwest of the village of Otero de Herreros and since 2009 several members of the Spanish Society for the History of Archaeology (SEHA) have been excavating at this site.
The archaeological work has located copper mines and a battery of ore reduction furnaces of a type hitherto unknown on the peninsula. The excavations have documented structures and materials dating mainly from the Late Republican, High-Imperial and Late Antique periods, although there are also remains from the 6th century BC. Monetary finds and the sculpture of a seated lady with her head removed also stand out.
In this conference we will deal with a series of Roman constructions that until now have not been analysed with the attention they deserve and therefore have not been well interpreted. The most recognisable remains of these, excavated in the coastal rock, can be found in the northern half of the Alicante coast in the towns of Jávea, Calpe, El Campello and Alicante (the latter next to the Roman city of Lucentum). A new installation of this type has also recently been proposed at Cape Trafalgar (Cádiz), although with less obvious remains than those in Alicante.
Numerous nurseries are scattered along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea and there is very little evidence of both types of constructions in the same place. In reality, most of the nurseries were part of sumptuous maritime villas, an element that made them stand out as an expression of maximum luxury and ostentation.
The scarcity and uniqueness of these Roman constructions on the Iberian Peninsula, even with their remarkable monumentality and almost all of them grouped together in a very specific stretch of the Spanish Mediterranean coast, are strong arguments for proposing measures for their conservation. In recent years we have witnessed the partial destruction of some nurseries in El Campello due to marine erosion and others, for the same reason, are in danger of disappearing.
Through various national and regional research projects, the “Ager Mellariensis” team of the University of Cordoba (www.uco.es/mellaria) has documented several kilometres of the great connecting artery between Cordoba and Merida as it passes through the territory of Cordoba and Mellaria.
This road was the evacuation channel for the wealth of the famed gold-producing land of Córdoba. Thus, a series of major and minor settlements and production complexes were set up around its course. We begin to glimpse the structure that allowed the financial power of the capital of Baetica in the powerful mining district of which it was a reference point.
There is no doubt that, in the history of humanity, women have played a leading role, ignored or despised, which we are gradually discovering and highlighting.
The Roman city of Regina is currently located in the vicinity of the municipality of Casas de Reina, a small town near Llerena, in the south of the province of Badajoz. In ancient times it was in the province of Baetica, attached to the conventus Cordubensis.
Neither the mining wealth of the area, nor its important strategic location, an important pass towards the Vegas del Guadiana, went unnoticed by the Romans. After the first skirmishes with the indigenous tribes and, above all, with the Lusitanian bands, the Romans erected a first settlement to control the territory at Cerro de las Nieves. With the pax Augusta, as happened in other towns, the high ground was abandoned and the city was built on the plain.
A city devoted to mining, it exercised administrative control over a large territory. As a result of this prosperous activity, in the time of Vespasian, it was granted the legal status of municipium.
The gestation of the Roman city from its foundation on a primitive Vascon settlement and its urban transformation over the centuries will be analysed.
The different historical events led to urban development impulses that have left a deep archaeological trace in the subsoil that allows us to identify the different stages of this city.
Audiovisual introduction to the urban world in Roman Hispania. Visual image of urban and monumental development
Food. This paper presents the research and physical reproduction process followed by the Baetica and Flor de Garum teams (made up of researchers from the University of Cadiz and the University of Seville), aimed at obtaining these foods, which formed part of the diet of Roman society.
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