Hábito epigráfico y construcción provincial romana en el Conventus Lucensis

Abstract

Latin epigraphy in Galicia has traditionally been interpreted through the evolution of the paradigm or romanization (from colonialism to post-colonialism), and in a retrospective connection with the late Iron Age. Additionally, epigraphy in certain sites and certain inscriptions have received notably more attention than some minor pieces or sets in rural environments. In this work, we will analyse the Latin Epigraphy in the Conventus Lucensis on the basis of different epigraphic sets that can be distinguishable according to their connection with settlements or workshops, or because they constitute possible interconnected productions as “epigraphic landscapes”. We will provide a content to this term as an analytic unit, and we will approach to the possible connections among the different epigraphic landscapes identified, together with their involvement in the processes for the construction or a Roman provintial environment, such as Atlantic trade. With this aim in mind, we will carry out as many autopsies on the inscriptions preserved, and recur to the documentation available concerning lost pieces. This documentation will allow us to create an epigraphic corpus which will serve as a structure for the different theoretical proposals in this work. We will set out an integral approach to the inscriptions and sets, taking into account all their possible analytical components: internal, external and their spatial relation with other pieces, sets or sites. Through the identification of possible epigraphic landscapes and their interconnections during the High Empire, we will try to contribute to the construction of a theoretical framework for the expansion of the epigraphic habit, created from the analysis of the inscriptions themselves, not from their insertion in a previously-developed paradigm.