This paper presents the edition of a new funerary inscription recently discovered within the municipal territory of Lucena (Cordoba). It is a white limestone stele preserving the epitaph of a woman named Deutera, dated to the Julio-Claudian period. The find is remarkable for its onomastic interest, as the uninominal structure of the name suggests that she was a slave, reinforced by the Greek origin of the anthroponym, which is moreover sparsely attested in Hispanian epigraphy. Consequently, her attestation in such an early historical context, within an area of incipient Romanization, allows us to suggest a link with a family of Roman citizens or with a deeply Romanised family. In this regard, a possible association with the Fuficii is proposed, a gens of probable Italic origin, possibly settled in Augusta Firma (Astigi), which may have owned rural estates in what is now the Campi & ntilde;a Sur and Subb & eacute;tica regions of Cordoba.
The origin of the human settlement of the Canary Islands is an open problem that tests the limits of historical knowledge. The aim of this research is to propose an explanatory model that allows us to understand the obscure process by which the archipelago became part of the inhabited world. The first part of this study reviews the archaeological record of the archipelago in order to establish the basic historical references. The second investigates the ethnic organisation of ancient Africa under Roman rule with the intention of revealing the complexity of the possible social contexts of origin of the first settlers of the islands. It explores the network of political, social and economic relations maintained between the Roman authorities and the African gentes, revising the old historiographical paradigms that conceived the links between them in Manichean and simplistic terms. As a result, I propose the hypothesis of an autonomous settlement (without any external intervention) forced by necessity, as the ultimate solution to a historical conjuncture such as to face the colonisation of a territory never contemplated as a habitable world until the 3rd century A.D.
The military sacramentum was a requirement as important for Roman military organization as it was difficult to locate and define for modern research, which has traditionally prioritized some sources over others. Among the literary sources that have received the most attention, there have been works that have been used far more-such as Livy's Ab urbe condita or Tacitus' Annales and Historiae-than others, and among these works, the Epistulae by Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus stands out. In this work, inserted into the rich literary genre of epistolography, there are two mentions made by the author of the sacramentum, which, despite being few, provide tremendous amount of information. The objective of this work is precisely to underline the importance of this information, long overlooked, and to provide some interpretations that shed light on the time of recruitment of recruits into the Roman Army, as well as on the influence this phenomenon had on the Christian lexicon of the Latin West from the third century AD onward.
In this work we present an interpretation of the structures discovered at the archaeological site of Cercadilla (Cordoba), based on the analysis of the epigraphic and legal documentation, as well as the archaeological testimonies, concluding the hypothesis that this monumental complex, located in what was the suburbium occidentalis of Corduba, was built and had as its first function that of the headquarters of the vicarius of the Dioecesis Hispaniarum, subsequently passing, by decision of Constant I, into the power of the ecclesia cordubensis of Bishop Osio, who gave the complex a second use of a cult nature, establishing, among other elements, a martyr basilica.
This article presents an unpublished fragment of a Roman military diploma preserved in the National Museum of Roman Art in M & eacute;rida, dated to AD 128. The fragment belongs to tabula I of a diploma issued during the reign of Hadrian. The significance of the document lies in the fact that it constitutes one of the earliest epigraphic testimonies that can be dated with precision in which Hadrian is granted the title Pater Patriae, definitively accepted by the emperor in that same year. Furthermore, the study of the extrinsecus allows the diploma to be attributed to a soldier of the cohors I Ulpia Dacorum, a unit raised under Trajan and stationed on the Syrian front. The possible identification of the prefect Tiberius Claudius Maximinus suggests that the fragment may correspond to the earliest known discharge of this cohort, thus providing new evidence for the administrative and military history of the Roman East.
