Recent Archaeological Work in Roman Iberia (1990–2002)

Keay, Simon

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“…There is a vivid archaeological history of Roman occupation on the Iberian Peninsula, which is now present day Spain and Portugal (Keay, 2003). The Roman villa of Tourega lies in the former Roman province of Lusitania, located 15 km southwest of present day É vora (Ebora in Roman time), in the Alentejo region of Portugal (Figure 1a).…”

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Common‐ and multi‐offset ground‐penetrating radar study of a Roman villa, Tourega, Portugal

Berard

Maillol

2007

Archaeological Prospection

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A ground-penetrating radar (GPR) survey was conducted at the site of the first to fourth century AD Roman villa of Tourega, near E ¤ vora, Alentejo region, Portugal.This site has been partially excavated, revealing a bathhouse complex consisting ofa tank reservoir, multiple bathingrooms and a major corridor.The excavated portion of Tourega provides direct archaeological feedback as to the size, shape, depth and orientation of structures revealed by GPR surveys. A 4500 m 2 area surrounding the known site was surveyed using common-offset 500 MHz and 200 MHz pseudo-three-dimensional acquisition. Amplitude time-slice analysis reveals a large numberof well-defined additional structures confirming a much broader extension of the site. For shallow buried rectilinear structural targets, the high frequency 500 MHz common-offset data provide excellent imaging. However, limited depth penetration at 500 MHz necessitated a lower frequencyofinvestigation; therefore 200 MHz commonoffset and multi-offset data were also acquired.Two 200 MHz multi-offset GPR profiles were obtained over the large double-walled structure identified on the time-slices, acquired using a newly proposed multi-offset acquisition technique^rapid multi-offset acquisition. This acquisition technique uses the existing single-channel GPR system, is extremely cost-effective, and easily acquires a high fold. Rapid multi-offset acquisition provides an average time saving up to five times that of stationary multioffset profiling. The 200 MHz multi-offset profiles provide a greater depth penetration and enhanced structural detail (i.e. improved imaging of dipping structures) than comparable 200 MHz common-offset profiles. Post-stack, inverse-Q filtering increases vertical resolution and interpretability of the multi-offset sectionsvia removalof wavelet dispersion.Althoughmulti-offset data arelessfeasible for characterizing this site in three dimensions because of the large time commitment in data collection, two multi-offset profiles over key structures of interest improved the final site interpretation, with enhanced image quality and higher resolution than comparable common-offset profiles. The combined results of the multi-offset survey with a common-offset grid should encourage a more frequent use of multi-offset data at archaeological sites when the depth extent of the archaeological site is uncertain.

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Common‐ and multi‐offset ground‐penetrating radar study of a Roman villa, Tourega, Portugal

Berard

Maillol

2007

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Ambiguity, Iconology and Entangled Objects on Coinage of the Republican World

Rowan

2016

J. Rom. Stud.

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Abstract:The provincial coinage of the Roman Empire has proven to be a rich source for studying civic experiences of Roman rule, but the coins struck outside Rome during the expansion of the Roman Republic have, by contrast, received relatively little attention. This article aims to begin redressing this neglect by exploring the active role of coinage in conceptualising and representing Roman Republican power. A variety of approaches to this neglected material are employed in order to highlight its potential as a source. Ambiguity, iconology or the social life of images, and entanglement are used as frameworks to explore case studies from across the Roman Republican world, from Spain to Syria. This approach to coin imagery under the Republic reveals the complexity and variety in which the Roman presence, and Roman imperium, was represented before the advent of the principate. IntroductionIn 'Notes towards an anthropology of money' Keith Hart observes that communities operate through culture or meanings held in common, and that 'money is, with language, the most important vehicle for this collective sharing'.1 Money is a media that enables the commensuration of differing value systems (crucial to conquest or contact situations) and whose circulation defines particular political and/or social groupings. Money contributes to a sense of commonality, and its iconography encourages collective traditions, values and memory.2 Money is, in short, one of several media that actively contribute to the formation and maintenance of a community and its traditions. It achieves this by being used, handled, seen andThe following abbreviations are used: ACIP: Villaronga, L. and J. Benages, (eds). (2011) These functions were also present in the Roman world. Howgego has recently demonstrated the connection between coinage and Roman expansion, and the detailed study of the site of Lattara in Gaul has revealed how Roman conquest within this one settlement lead to an increased presence of money in order to facilitate exchange and commensuration between differing value systems.4 Although site finds often only contain coins that have been lost or discarded, and the archaeological record is far from complete, the presence of significant quantities of coins at excavated settlements (whether they be large cities like Athens or Corinth, Roman legionary camps like Numantia, or smaller settlements like Lattara or the mining village of La Loba) demonstrates that coinage did have a role in everyday life. 5 The extent of rural coin use is more controversial, but here new studies, at least for the imperial period, suggest coin use was higher than has originally believed. 6Studies of Roman coinage have demonstrated how these media enabled Roman expansion and acted as 'monuments in miniature' that expressed and reinforced cultural values.7 Imperial coins commonly carried imagery focused on the imperial family. The (mostly bronze) coinage struck by individual cities in the Roman Empire, labelled provincial coinage in modern scholarship, carried type...

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La Péninsule Ibérique aux Époques romaines

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Recent Archaeological Work in Roman Iberia (1990–2002)

Cited by 7 publications

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Common‐ and multi‐offset ground‐penetrating radar study of a Roman villa, Tourega, Portugal

Common‐ and multi‐offset ground‐penetrating radar study of a Roman villa, Tourega, Portugal

Ambiguity, Iconology and Entangled Objects on Coinage of the Republican World

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