BOOKS by JAIME VIZCAÍNO SÁNCHEZ
Escuchar Bizancio remite casi de forma automática a Santa Sofía o los dorados mosaicos de San Vit... more Escuchar Bizancio remite casi de forma automática a Santa Sofía o los dorados mosaicos de San Vital en Rávena. Escapa al conocimiento popular, sin embargo, que Ceuta, las Baleares y una franja costera de la península Ibérica también llegaron a formar parte de esa civilización, el Imperio Romano de Oriente. De hecho, con su conquista a mediados del siglo VI, el emperador Justiniano conseguía, si no recuperar el conjunto de Occidente y restaurar el viejo imperio unificado, al menos sí alcanzar su umbral, el punto donde acaban las aguas del Mare Nostrum.
Arqueólogos, historiadores, historiadores del Arte y filólogos de más de una docena de universidades y centros de investigación analizan las claves de este período a caballo entre la Antigüedad y la Edad Media. Para ello, esta obra se divide en dos partes. La primera, estructurada en dieciocho capítulos, se enfoca a un lector no necesariamente especialista, que pretenda conocer los últimos hallazgos de las excavaciones arqueológicas en ciudades como Cartagena, Málaga o Algeciras, o los pormenores de las luchas entre los soldados imperiales y las tropas del reino visigodo de Toledo. A continuación, completa el trabajo un estado de la cuestión sobre la ocupación bizantina en Hispania, que incluye una completa bibliografía sobre la temática.
PAPERS (ARCHAEOLOGY AND ART HISTORY) by JAIME VIZCAÍNO SÁNCHEZ
BERNAL, D.; VIZCAÍNO, J.; NOGUERA, J.M.; MADRID, MªJ., PIQUÉS, G. y LÓPEZ, J.A. (2024): "Un spatheion haliéutico en Carthago Spartaria y el garum africano del siglo VII", Antiquités Africaines, 60, pp.123-138 Antiquités Africaines, 60, 2024
El paleocontenido de un spatheion africano de un contexto del s. VII d.C. del área de El Molinete... more El paleocontenido de un spatheion africano de un contexto del s. VII d.C. del área de El Molinete de Cartagena ha sido objeto de un estudio interdisciplinar, constituyendo uno de los escasos ejemplos mediterráneos analizados de garum en época paleobizantina, y el más tardío conocido hasta la fecha. Sabemos que contuvo una salsa líquida, filtrada de manera imperfecta, lo que ha dejado algunas ínfimas esquirlas y huesos de ictiofaunas arqueológicas, unidas a los aditivos botánicos utilizados como aromatizantes. Un tipo de garum importado del norte de África, en uno de los tipos de ánfora de dimensiones más reducidas que ha conocido el comercio romano a lo largo de toda su historia. Se presenta la problemática del contexto cerámico del hallazgo, el estudio arqueoictiológico, palinológico y su interpretación tecnológica, así como algunas reflexiones sobre las salsas fermentadas de pescado en la Antigüedad Tardía, con especial incidencia en el norte de África tunecino.
Résumé:: Le paléocontenu d’un spatheion africain provenant d’un contexte du viie siècle apr. J.-C. de la zone El Molinete de Carthagène a fait l’objet d’une étude interdisciplinaire, constituant l’un des rares exemples méditerranéens de garum analysés pour l’Antiquité tardive, pour l’époque paléobyzantine, et le plus tardif connu à ce jour. Nous savons qu’il contenait une sauce liquide, imparfaitement filtrée, qui a laissé quelques minus- cules ossements et esquilles d’ichtyofaune archéologiques, ainsi que des additifs végétaux utilisés comme aromates. Un type de garum importé d’Afrique du Nord, dans l’un des plus petits types d’amphores que le commerce romain ait connu tout au long de son histoire. La problématique du contexte céramique de la découverte, l’étude archéoichtyologique et palynologique et son interprétation technologique sont présentées, ainsi que quelques réflexions sur les sauces de poisson fermentées pour l’Antiquité tardive, avec un accent particulier sur l’Afrique du Nord tunisienne.
GÓMEZ, J., VIZCAÍNO, J., NOGUERA, J.M., GUILLERMO, M., MADRID, MªJ., GARCÍA, MªV. y VELASCO, V., 2024: CONTEXTOS DOMÉSTICOS EN CARTAGENA (SS. III a.C. AL IX d.C.): PROCESOS DE CAMBIO Y CONTINUIDAD / DOMESTIC CONTEXTS IN CARTAGENA (3rd CENTURY B.C. TO 9th): PROCESSES OF CHANGE AND CONTINUITY Vivere in urbe. El ámbito doméstico urbano de Hispania desde la época altoimperial hasta el periodo emiral, MYTRA 13, 2024
The archaeological record of Cartagena provides remarkable information on the resilient nature of... more The archaeological record of Cartagena provides remarkable information on the resilient nature of the city’s domestic areas between Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Between the end of the 3rd century B.C. and the 9th century A.D., large areas of the urban site were developed for domestic and domestic-craft habitat, which underwent profound transformation processes with the passing of time. There are also areas of a public or semi-public nature that were converted over time into domestic and craft areas. This paper analyses these contexts and explains the dynamics of strong processes of continuity and change experienced by their domestic units or by other public and semi- public buildings that were transformed into residential ones.
VIZCAÍNO, J., 2023, "Corduba and the Byzantine expansion in the Western Mediterranean", in MONFERRER, J.P. and MONTERROSO, A., eds., A Companion to Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Cordoba. Capital of Roman Baetica and Caliphate of al-Andalus, Brill, Leiden-Boston, pp.51-78 A Companion to Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Cordoba. Capital of Roman Baetica and Caliphate of al-Andalus, 2023
Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2022
During the 6th and 7th c. CE, Carthago Spartaria (modern Cartagena) became one of the most import... more During the 6th and 7th c. CE, Carthago Spartaria (modern Cartagena) became one of the most important cities in the Byzantine province of Spania. Recent archaeological excavations at Cerro del Molinete have significantly increased our knowledge of the ancient city, enabling the exploration of an early Byzantine neighborhood built over the Roman Forum district. A cast bronze ewer of type Werner A2 was found in a pit dug over the temple that presided over the Forum. The associated materials, mainly pottery and glass vessels, are compatible with a deposition between 580/90 and 650/60 CE. This assemblage improves our understanding of the trade networks interconnecting the Mediterranean basin during the 6th and 7th c. CE. In this context, we argue that the unknown production center of the A2 ewers was located in the northern Adriatic, probably in Ravenna
Hispania Sacra, 2022
We analyze a lamp reflector with chrismon recently found at Carthago Spartaria (Cartagena). In th... more We analyze a lamp reflector with chrismon recently found at Carthago Spartaria (Cartagena). In this work, an iconographic
and functional analysis of this unpublished piece is approached. The chrismon is frequently shown on ARSW bowls or lamps
produced between the 4th and the 5th centuries. However, the Tunisian lamp reflectors are very scarce. They are linked to the
typological evolution of Early Christian bronze prototypes, in which the reflectors allowed a play of light and shadow with the
motif stamped on them. The low impact on the Mediterranean basin allows us to derive data on very little use and perhaps linked
to the liturgy of Christian communities.
FULL TEXT https://hispaniasacra.revistas.csic.es/index.php/hispaniasacra/article/view/923
C. Márquez y D. Becerra (eds), El período clásico como recurso: Mímesis y reempleo en la Antigüedad Tardía y el período islámico. UCOPress: Editorial Universidad de Córdoba (ISBN: 978-84-9927-651-9), pp. 173-212., 2022
En el marco del proyecto integral de excavación, conservación, musealización e investigación del ... more En el marco del proyecto integral de excavación, conservación, musealización e investigación del Parque Arqueológico del Molinete en
Cartagena, el reciente registro de un potente muro en opus africanum
formando parte de su barrio de época bizantina, nos lleva a estudiar la
perduración y reactivación de este ancestral aparejo. El conjunto de la
ciudad y, de forma concreta, el cerro del Molinete, la denominada arx
Hasdrubalis (Polibio X, 10, 9), muestran cómo esta técnica constructiva se utilizó de forma intensa desde su fundación en época púnica, hasta
el final de la Antigüedad. De forma especial, insistimos en el “resurgimiento” del aparejo en época tardía, analizando cuanto de “mímesis”,
continuidad o innovación, conlleva respecto a su configuración clásica.
En este planteamiento debatimos cuestiones como la existencia de una
cultura arquitectónica, factores de etnicidad urbana o la posibilidad de
determinar una lógica para los fenómenos de mímesis.
Palabras clave: Opus africanum; cerro del Molinete; Cartagena; bizantina; cultura arquitectónica; etnicidad urbana; mímesis
RESUMEN
Presentamos un avance de los trabajos arqueológicos llevados a cabo en la basílica tardoa... more RESUMEN
Presentamos un avance de los trabajos arqueológicos llevados a cabo en la basílica tardoantigua de Algezares. A pesar de ser una intervención de alcance limitado destinada principalmente a comprobar el estado de conservación del yacimiento, amplía nuestro conocimiento de esta antigua iglesia y su reocupación paleoandalusí.
Palabras clave: basílica, tardoantigua, Algezares, conservación, reocupación, paleoandalusí
ABSTRACT
We present an outcome of the archaeological works carried out in the late antique basilica of Algezares, Despite being an intervention of limited scope mainly aimed at verifying the state of conservation of the archaeological site, it enlarges our knowledge of this ancient church and its early Andalusi reoccupation.
Keywords: basílica, late Antique, Algezares, conservation, reoccupation, early Andalusi
Vizcaíno Sánchez, J., 2021, "Las últimas romanas. Una aproximación arqueológica al mundo femenino de la Spania bizantina", en Valmaña, A.; Bravo, MªJ.; y Rodríguez, R. (eds), Mujeres de la Hispania Romana. Una mirada al patrimonio, Madrid, 327-353. Valmaña, A.; Bravo, MªJ.; y Rodríguez, R. (eds), Mujeres de la Hispania Romana. Una mirada al patrimonio. Madrid. Dykinson. ISBN: 978-84-1377-082-6. DL: M-4350-2021, 2021
Byzantine occupation of Spain has been mainly studied from a traditional point of view which focu... more Byzantine occupation of Spain has been mainly studied from a traditional point of view which focuses its attention in the war between milites romani and Visigoths. Thus, the gender studies have begun only in the last years. The special nature of the information gave by the late antique authors has implied that the historiography studies only women related with the power. In this paper, we want to make visible a more complex female reality in which elite women are only a group belonging to a wider reality. Texts and archaeological evidence, especially from funerary world, are exposed. We study anthropological evidences, funerary offerings and two female epitaphia sepulcralia of the Byzantine Spania: Baleria’s funerary mosaic and the inscription of Saturina.
Key words: Archaeology; women; epitaphia sepulcralia; funerary mosaic; epigraphy
Mateos Cruz, P.; Morán Sánchez, C. J. (Eds.) 2020: Exemplum et Spolia. La reutilización arquitectónica en la transformación del paisaje urbano de las ciudades históricas, Mytra 7, Mérida. D.L.: BA-815-2020. I.S.B.N.: 978-84-09-26151-2 / Vol. 1: 978-84-09-26155-0 / Vol. 2: 978-84-09-26156-7 , 2020
PRIVATARUM AEDIUM HABITATIO. ABOUT THE OCCUPATION IN THE LATE ANTIQUITY OF THE HARBOUR BATHS OF C... more PRIVATARUM AEDIUM HABITATIO. ABOUT THE OCCUPATION IN THE LATE ANTIQUITY OF THE HARBOUR BATHS OF CARTHAGO NOVA
Despite repeated imperial provisions aimed at preventing the deterioration and alienation of public goods, both the textual sources and the material record show how, urban evolution is going in the opposite direction. Not surprisingly, that same reiteration shows the impossibility of stopping a process that, ultimately, the administration itself will end up regulating. The aim of this work is to study the changes experienced by the thermal facilities in the late period and, in particular, to analyse a specific example, the Harbour Baths of Carthago Nova (Cartagena, España), object of a recent Phd Thesis. The systematic study carried out and the investigations about the late occupational phases of the arx Hasdrubalis, allow us to present the singular trajectory of the building as one more link in the deep metamorphosis that Carthago Spartaria registers between the centuries. V and VII.
RESUMEN
A pesar de las reiteradas disposiciones imperiales tendentes a evitar el deterioro y la enajenación de los bienes públicos, tanto las fuentes textuales como el mismo registro material muestran cómo, de forma coetánea, la evolución urbana va en dirección opuesta. No en vano, esa misma reiteración da cuenta de la imposibilidad de frenar un proceso que, finalmente, la propia administración acabará regulando. El objeto de este trabajo es estudiar los cambios experimentados por las instalaciones termales en época tardía y, de modo especial, analizar un ejemplo concreto, el de las Termas del Puerto de Carthago Nova, objeto de una reciente tesis doctoral. El estudio sistemático llevado a cabo en el marco de ésta, así como las investigaciones acerca de las fases ocupacionales tardoantiguas de la arx Hasdrubalis, nos permiten plantear la singular trayectoria del edificio como un eslabón más de la
profunda metamorfosis que registra Carthago Spartaria entre los siglos V y VII.
This chapter analyses some aspects of the late antique occupation of 'Senda de Granada', a rural ... more This chapter analyses some aspects of the late antique occupation of 'Senda de Granada', a rural settlement in Murcia. In the late fifth century, after they arrived in Hispania, the Visigoths attempted to assimilate Roman culture. Archaeological research has revealed the possibility of a religious building, with a well-defined funerary enclosure. Grave goods, mainly dress accessories, from the burial and a nearby dump, are decorated with the cloisonné technique. The presence of such items was previously unknown in southeastern Carthaginiensis. These finds and, more widely, the resulting settlement pattern, are evaluated and will be used as a blueprint for the examination of early Visigothic presence in the region.
VIZCAÍNO, J.; NOGUERA, J.M., y MADRID, MªJ., 2020, “De fosas y tesoros o de cómo el tesoro es la fosa. Un contexto de vertido en el barrio de época bizantina de la Arx Hasdrubalis”, en Doménech, C., y Gutiérrez, S. (ed.), El sitio de las cosas. La Alta Edad Media en contexto, pp.83-102. DOMÉNECH, C., y GUTIÉRREZ, S. (eds), El sitio de las cosas. La Alta Edad Media en contexto, Universitat d'Alacant. ISBN 978-84-9717-707-8. DL: A 317-2020, 2020
The excavations at the foot of the arx Hasdrubalis are increasing our knowledge about the Byzanti... more The excavations at the foot of the arx Hasdrubalis are increasing our knowledge about the Byzantine occupation of Carthago Spartaria (Cartagena, Spain). Here, we analyse a Byzantine shaft dug into a metamorphosed Roman monumental building, the so called Edificio del Atrio. From the 3rd century AD onwards, the Edificio del Atrio, as other Roman buildings of the insulae around the former forum, experimented different transformations which largely obscured its original character. The 6th and 7th centuries accentuated these changes even more, and then this insula was transformed into an active industrial area, that includes two industrial workshops beside a motley domestic complex.
Our Byzantine pit was dug into the old fauces, using its back wall. Despite its small dimensions, this dump contained an exceptional assemblage with pottery (fine wares, amphorae and coarse wares), glass vessels (bowls and flasks) or animal bones, which show us the everyday life of the city during the Byzantine occupation.
The shaft deposit can be dated to the first quarter of the 7th century. The pottery deposit includes Oriental types, represented by containers manufactured in Asia Minor (LRA3 and Ephesian early Byzantine amphoriskos) but, specially, vessels (ARSW) and amphorae (spatheia) from the Tunisian coastal region of Zeugitana. Obviously, this assemblage emphasizes the close relationship between Carthago Spartaria and North Africa.
We think this new context provides us a new example for the nature of the Byzantine occupation of Spain.
VIZCAÍNO, J.; NOGUERA, J.M., y MADRID, MªJ., 2020, "Rediviva moenia. Nuevos datos sobre las murallas de Carthago Spartaria en época bizantina", en Macías, J.Mª.; Ribera, A.; y Rosselló, M. (ed.), RECINTOS FORTIFICADOS EN ÉPOCA VISIGODA: HISTORIA, ARQUITECTURA Y TÉCNICA CONSTRUCTIVA, 117-136 Serie Trama-ICAC, 8, 2020
The archaeological excavations carried out on the summit of Cerro del Molinete (arx
Hasdrubalis) ... more The archaeological excavations carried out on the summit of Cerro del Molinete (arx
Hasdrubalis) in Cartagena (Carthago Nova; Hispania citerior, conventus Carthaginiensis) in 2010 and 2011 have partially revealed the successive walls (Punic, Roman Republican, Byzantine and modern) built to defend the city and its northern acropolis between the 3rd century BC and 16th century. The subject of this paper is the early Byzantine rampart, which can be dated to the second half of the 6th century, following the Justinian conquest of southern Spain. From an architectural point of view, this new rampart is characterized by the reuse of the earlier fortifications (Punic and Roman Republican) that were partially enlarged with heterogeneous materials, also mostly reused. We have found two longitudinal walls that are linked to several rooms. They are one of the few pieces of evidence of the early Byzantine fortifications in Spania. We also studied the associated pottery assemblage, which includes Oriental, Balearic or most frequently Tunisian receptacles and vessels that reveal something of everyday life in the city during the Byzantine occupation.
Pyrenae, 2020
An amphorae warehouse in El Molinete, Carthago Spartaria (Cartagena): a new 7th pottery context i... more An amphorae warehouse in El Molinete, Carthago Spartaria (Cartagena): a new 7th pottery context in Byzantine Hispania"
Si quieres descargar el trabajo / If you want to download the full article: https://raco.cat/index.php/Pyrenae/article/view/372488
VIZCAÍNO SÁNCHEZ, J., 2019, "Carthago Spartaria, una plaza fuerte bizantina", en HUGUET, E., y RIBERA, A. (coord.), En tiempos de los visigodos en el territorio de Valencia, Museu de Prehistòria de València, Valencia, pp.155-164 The deployment of Byzantine troops and civil servants always entailed an effort by the imperial a... more The deployment of Byzantine troops and civil servants always entailed an effort by the imperial administration to maintain them through a sort of renewed annona. Between other Hispanic civitates, such as Septem, Malaca or Ilici, Carthago Spartaria (Cartagena, Spain) reveals this through ceramic contexts where imports stand out, especially goods from the reconquered Africa and, to a lesser extent, from the East. Recently, the last archaeological excavations carried out on the summit of Cerro del Molinete (arx Hasdrubalis) have partially uncovered a rampart which can be dated in the second half of the sixth century, after the Justinian conquest of Southern Spain. With these new findings, beside a lamellar armour or Avar arrowheads retrieved in the early Byzantine quarter built over the old Roman theatre, Cartagena becomes an obligatory
point of reference in our knowledge of milites Romani in Byzantine Spain
EPILOGUE OR BEGINNING? THE FORMER ISIS SANCTUARY AND THE BYZANTINE OCCUPATION. SANCTUARY OF ISIS ... more EPILOGUE OR BEGINNING? THE FORMER ISIS SANCTUARY AND THE BYZANTINE OCCUPATION. SANCTUARY OF ISIS AND SERAPIS (INSULA II). ROMAN FORUM DISTRICT. RECOVERY AND CONSERVATION.
While the emperor Justinian was still trying to eradicate the cult of Isis in Egypt by closing the Philae temple, little or nothing remained of the Iseion in Carthago Spartaria, which had fallen victim to dynamics of obliteration in operation from the 3rd century AD onwards. As was the case with the other insulae around the forum, the sanctuary had been forced to adapt to the needs of the late city. These transformations were particularly intense in the Late Imperial period, when the Iseion was transformed into an active industrial area, which largely obscured its original character. The 6th and 7th centuries accentuated these changes even more, and all traces of the former sanctuary were finally obliterated by a new street layout. Some of the sanctuary’s substantial walls were still visible despite the rising of the floor level, and were used as foundations for the construction of a motley domestic complex.
VIZCAÍNO, J., 2019, "La Alberca, Murcia", en J. M. Noguera (ed.), Villae. Vida y producción rural en el sureste de Hispania. Catálogo de la exposición, Museo Arqueológico de Murcia, marzo-junio de 2019, Murcia, 2019, 148-151. ISBN: 978-84-7564-742-5.
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BOOKS by JAIME VIZCAÍNO SÁNCHEZ
Arqueólogos, historiadores, historiadores del Arte y filólogos de más de una docena de universidades y centros de investigación analizan las claves de este período a caballo entre la Antigüedad y la Edad Media. Para ello, esta obra se divide en dos partes. La primera, estructurada en dieciocho capítulos, se enfoca a un lector no necesariamente especialista, que pretenda conocer los últimos hallazgos de las excavaciones arqueológicas en ciudades como Cartagena, Málaga o Algeciras, o los pormenores de las luchas entre los soldados imperiales y las tropas del reino visigodo de Toledo. A continuación, completa el trabajo un estado de la cuestión sobre la ocupación bizantina en Hispania, que incluye una completa bibliografía sobre la temática.
PAPERS (ARCHAEOLOGY AND ART HISTORY) by JAIME VIZCAÍNO SÁNCHEZ
Résumé:: Le paléocontenu d’un spatheion africain provenant d’un contexte du viie siècle apr. J.-C. de la zone El Molinete de Carthagène a fait l’objet d’une étude interdisciplinaire, constituant l’un des rares exemples méditerranéens de garum analysés pour l’Antiquité tardive, pour l’époque paléobyzantine, et le plus tardif connu à ce jour. Nous savons qu’il contenait une sauce liquide, imparfaitement filtrée, qui a laissé quelques minus- cules ossements et esquilles d’ichtyofaune archéologiques, ainsi que des additifs végétaux utilisés comme aromates. Un type de garum importé d’Afrique du Nord, dans l’un des plus petits types d’amphores que le commerce romain ait connu tout au long de son histoire. La problématique du contexte céramique de la découverte, l’étude archéoichtyologique et palynologique et son interprétation technologique sont présentées, ainsi que quelques réflexions sur les sauces de poisson fermentées pour l’Antiquité tardive, avec un accent particulier sur l’Afrique du Nord tunisienne.
and functional analysis of this unpublished piece is approached. The chrismon is frequently shown on ARSW bowls or lamps
produced between the 4th and the 5th centuries. However, the Tunisian lamp reflectors are very scarce. They are linked to the
typological evolution of Early Christian bronze prototypes, in which the reflectors allowed a play of light and shadow with the
motif stamped on them. The low impact on the Mediterranean basin allows us to derive data on very little use and perhaps linked
to the liturgy of Christian communities.
FULL TEXT https://hispaniasacra.revistas.csic.es/index.php/hispaniasacra/article/view/923
Cartagena, el reciente registro de un potente muro en opus africanum
formando parte de su barrio de época bizantina, nos lleva a estudiar la
perduración y reactivación de este ancestral aparejo. El conjunto de la
ciudad y, de forma concreta, el cerro del Molinete, la denominada arx
Hasdrubalis (Polibio X, 10, 9), muestran cómo esta técnica constructiva se utilizó de forma intensa desde su fundación en época púnica, hasta
el final de la Antigüedad. De forma especial, insistimos en el “resurgimiento” del aparejo en época tardía, analizando cuanto de “mímesis”,
continuidad o innovación, conlleva respecto a su configuración clásica.
En este planteamiento debatimos cuestiones como la existencia de una
cultura arquitectónica, factores de etnicidad urbana o la posibilidad de
determinar una lógica para los fenómenos de mímesis.
Palabras clave: Opus africanum; cerro del Molinete; Cartagena; bizantina; cultura arquitectónica; etnicidad urbana; mímesis
Presentamos un avance de los trabajos arqueológicos llevados a cabo en la basílica tardoantigua de Algezares. A pesar de ser una intervención de alcance limitado destinada principalmente a comprobar el estado de conservación del yacimiento, amplía nuestro conocimiento de esta antigua iglesia y su reocupación paleoandalusí.
Palabras clave: basílica, tardoantigua, Algezares, conservación, reocupación, paleoandalusí
ABSTRACT
We present an outcome of the archaeological works carried out in the late antique basilica of Algezares, Despite being an intervention of limited scope mainly aimed at verifying the state of conservation of the archaeological site, it enlarges our knowledge of this ancient church and its early Andalusi reoccupation.
Keywords: basílica, late Antique, Algezares, conservation, reoccupation, early Andalusi
Key words: Archaeology; women; epitaphia sepulcralia; funerary mosaic; epigraphy
Despite repeated imperial provisions aimed at preventing the deterioration and alienation of public goods, both the textual sources and the material record show how, urban evolution is going in the opposite direction. Not surprisingly, that same reiteration shows the impossibility of stopping a process that, ultimately, the administration itself will end up regulating. The aim of this work is to study the changes experienced by the thermal facilities in the late period and, in particular, to analyse a specific example, the Harbour Baths of Carthago Nova (Cartagena, España), object of a recent Phd Thesis. The systematic study carried out and the investigations about the late occupational phases of the arx Hasdrubalis, allow us to present the singular trajectory of the building as one more link in the deep metamorphosis that Carthago Spartaria registers between the centuries. V and VII.
RESUMEN
A pesar de las reiteradas disposiciones imperiales tendentes a evitar el deterioro y la enajenación de los bienes públicos, tanto las fuentes textuales como el mismo registro material muestran cómo, de forma coetánea, la evolución urbana va en dirección opuesta. No en vano, esa misma reiteración da cuenta de la imposibilidad de frenar un proceso que, finalmente, la propia administración acabará regulando. El objeto de este trabajo es estudiar los cambios experimentados por las instalaciones termales en época tardía y, de modo especial, analizar un ejemplo concreto, el de las Termas del Puerto de Carthago Nova, objeto de una reciente tesis doctoral. El estudio sistemático llevado a cabo en el marco de ésta, así como las investigaciones acerca de las fases ocupacionales tardoantiguas de la arx Hasdrubalis, nos permiten plantear la singular trayectoria del edificio como un eslabón más de la
profunda metamorfosis que registra Carthago Spartaria entre los siglos V y VII.
Our Byzantine pit was dug into the old fauces, using its back wall. Despite its small dimensions, this dump contained an exceptional assemblage with pottery (fine wares, amphorae and coarse wares), glass vessels (bowls and flasks) or animal bones, which show us the everyday life of the city during the Byzantine occupation.
The shaft deposit can be dated to the first quarter of the 7th century. The pottery deposit includes Oriental types, represented by containers manufactured in Asia Minor (LRA3 and Ephesian early Byzantine amphoriskos) but, specially, vessels (ARSW) and amphorae (spatheia) from the Tunisian coastal region of Zeugitana. Obviously, this assemblage emphasizes the close relationship between Carthago Spartaria and North Africa.
We think this new context provides us a new example for the nature of the Byzantine occupation of Spain.
Hasdrubalis) in Cartagena (Carthago Nova; Hispania citerior, conventus Carthaginiensis) in 2010 and 2011 have partially revealed the successive walls (Punic, Roman Republican, Byzantine and modern) built to defend the city and its northern acropolis between the 3rd century BC and 16th century. The subject of this paper is the early Byzantine rampart, which can be dated to the second half of the 6th century, following the Justinian conquest of southern Spain. From an architectural point of view, this new rampart is characterized by the reuse of the earlier fortifications (Punic and Roman Republican) that were partially enlarged with heterogeneous materials, also mostly reused. We have found two longitudinal walls that are linked to several rooms. They are one of the few pieces of evidence of the early Byzantine fortifications in Spania. We also studied the associated pottery assemblage, which includes Oriental, Balearic or most frequently Tunisian receptacles and vessels that reveal something of everyday life in the city during the Byzantine occupation.
Si quieres descargar el trabajo / If you want to download the full article: https://raco.cat/index.php/Pyrenae/article/view/372488
point of reference in our knowledge of milites Romani in Byzantine Spain
While the emperor Justinian was still trying to eradicate the cult of Isis in Egypt by closing the Philae temple, little or nothing remained of the Iseion in Carthago Spartaria, which had fallen victim to dynamics of obliteration in operation from the 3rd century AD onwards. As was the case with the other insulae around the forum, the sanctuary had been forced to adapt to the needs of the late city. These transformations were particularly intense in the Late Imperial period, when the Iseion was transformed into an active industrial area, which largely obscured its original character. The 6th and 7th centuries accentuated these changes even more, and all traces of the former sanctuary were finally obliterated by a new street layout. Some of the sanctuary’s substantial walls were still visible despite the rising of the floor level, and were used as foundations for the construction of a motley domestic complex.
Arqueólogos, historiadores, historiadores del Arte y filólogos de más de una docena de universidades y centros de investigación analizan las claves de este período a caballo entre la Antigüedad y la Edad Media. Para ello, esta obra se divide en dos partes. La primera, estructurada en dieciocho capítulos, se enfoca a un lector no necesariamente especialista, que pretenda conocer los últimos hallazgos de las excavaciones arqueológicas en ciudades como Cartagena, Málaga o Algeciras, o los pormenores de las luchas entre los soldados imperiales y las tropas del reino visigodo de Toledo. A continuación, completa el trabajo un estado de la cuestión sobre la ocupación bizantina en Hispania, que incluye una completa bibliografía sobre la temática.
Résumé:: Le paléocontenu d’un spatheion africain provenant d’un contexte du viie siècle apr. J.-C. de la zone El Molinete de Carthagène a fait l’objet d’une étude interdisciplinaire, constituant l’un des rares exemples méditerranéens de garum analysés pour l’Antiquité tardive, pour l’époque paléobyzantine, et le plus tardif connu à ce jour. Nous savons qu’il contenait une sauce liquide, imparfaitement filtrée, qui a laissé quelques minus- cules ossements et esquilles d’ichtyofaune archéologiques, ainsi que des additifs végétaux utilisés comme aromates. Un type de garum importé d’Afrique du Nord, dans l’un des plus petits types d’amphores que le commerce romain ait connu tout au long de son histoire. La problématique du contexte céramique de la découverte, l’étude archéoichtyologique et palynologique et son interprétation technologique sont présentées, ainsi que quelques réflexions sur les sauces de poisson fermentées pour l’Antiquité tardive, avec un accent particulier sur l’Afrique du Nord tunisienne.
and functional analysis of this unpublished piece is approached. The chrismon is frequently shown on ARSW bowls or lamps
produced between the 4th and the 5th centuries. However, the Tunisian lamp reflectors are very scarce. They are linked to the
typological evolution of Early Christian bronze prototypes, in which the reflectors allowed a play of light and shadow with the
motif stamped on them. The low impact on the Mediterranean basin allows us to derive data on very little use and perhaps linked
to the liturgy of Christian communities.
FULL TEXT https://hispaniasacra.revistas.csic.es/index.php/hispaniasacra/article/view/923
Cartagena, el reciente registro de un potente muro en opus africanum
formando parte de su barrio de época bizantina, nos lleva a estudiar la
perduración y reactivación de este ancestral aparejo. El conjunto de la
ciudad y, de forma concreta, el cerro del Molinete, la denominada arx
Hasdrubalis (Polibio X, 10, 9), muestran cómo esta técnica constructiva se utilizó de forma intensa desde su fundación en época púnica, hasta
el final de la Antigüedad. De forma especial, insistimos en el “resurgimiento” del aparejo en época tardía, analizando cuanto de “mímesis”,
continuidad o innovación, conlleva respecto a su configuración clásica.
En este planteamiento debatimos cuestiones como la existencia de una
cultura arquitectónica, factores de etnicidad urbana o la posibilidad de
determinar una lógica para los fenómenos de mímesis.
Palabras clave: Opus africanum; cerro del Molinete; Cartagena; bizantina; cultura arquitectónica; etnicidad urbana; mímesis
Presentamos un avance de los trabajos arqueológicos llevados a cabo en la basílica tardoantigua de Algezares. A pesar de ser una intervención de alcance limitado destinada principalmente a comprobar el estado de conservación del yacimiento, amplía nuestro conocimiento de esta antigua iglesia y su reocupación paleoandalusí.
Palabras clave: basílica, tardoantigua, Algezares, conservación, reocupación, paleoandalusí
ABSTRACT
We present an outcome of the archaeological works carried out in the late antique basilica of Algezares, Despite being an intervention of limited scope mainly aimed at verifying the state of conservation of the archaeological site, it enlarges our knowledge of this ancient church and its early Andalusi reoccupation.
Keywords: basílica, late Antique, Algezares, conservation, reoccupation, early Andalusi
Key words: Archaeology; women; epitaphia sepulcralia; funerary mosaic; epigraphy
Despite repeated imperial provisions aimed at preventing the deterioration and alienation of public goods, both the textual sources and the material record show how, urban evolution is going in the opposite direction. Not surprisingly, that same reiteration shows the impossibility of stopping a process that, ultimately, the administration itself will end up regulating. The aim of this work is to study the changes experienced by the thermal facilities in the late period and, in particular, to analyse a specific example, the Harbour Baths of Carthago Nova (Cartagena, España), object of a recent Phd Thesis. The systematic study carried out and the investigations about the late occupational phases of the arx Hasdrubalis, allow us to present the singular trajectory of the building as one more link in the deep metamorphosis that Carthago Spartaria registers between the centuries. V and VII.
RESUMEN
A pesar de las reiteradas disposiciones imperiales tendentes a evitar el deterioro y la enajenación de los bienes públicos, tanto las fuentes textuales como el mismo registro material muestran cómo, de forma coetánea, la evolución urbana va en dirección opuesta. No en vano, esa misma reiteración da cuenta de la imposibilidad de frenar un proceso que, finalmente, la propia administración acabará regulando. El objeto de este trabajo es estudiar los cambios experimentados por las instalaciones termales en época tardía y, de modo especial, analizar un ejemplo concreto, el de las Termas del Puerto de Carthago Nova, objeto de una reciente tesis doctoral. El estudio sistemático llevado a cabo en el marco de ésta, así como las investigaciones acerca de las fases ocupacionales tardoantiguas de la arx Hasdrubalis, nos permiten plantear la singular trayectoria del edificio como un eslabón más de la
profunda metamorfosis que registra Carthago Spartaria entre los siglos V y VII.
Our Byzantine pit was dug into the old fauces, using its back wall. Despite its small dimensions, this dump contained an exceptional assemblage with pottery (fine wares, amphorae and coarse wares), glass vessels (bowls and flasks) or animal bones, which show us the everyday life of the city during the Byzantine occupation.
The shaft deposit can be dated to the first quarter of the 7th century. The pottery deposit includes Oriental types, represented by containers manufactured in Asia Minor (LRA3 and Ephesian early Byzantine amphoriskos) but, specially, vessels (ARSW) and amphorae (spatheia) from the Tunisian coastal region of Zeugitana. Obviously, this assemblage emphasizes the close relationship between Carthago Spartaria and North Africa.
We think this new context provides us a new example for the nature of the Byzantine occupation of Spain.
Hasdrubalis) in Cartagena (Carthago Nova; Hispania citerior, conventus Carthaginiensis) in 2010 and 2011 have partially revealed the successive walls (Punic, Roman Republican, Byzantine and modern) built to defend the city and its northern acropolis between the 3rd century BC and 16th century. The subject of this paper is the early Byzantine rampart, which can be dated to the second half of the 6th century, following the Justinian conquest of southern Spain. From an architectural point of view, this new rampart is characterized by the reuse of the earlier fortifications (Punic and Roman Republican) that were partially enlarged with heterogeneous materials, also mostly reused. We have found two longitudinal walls that are linked to several rooms. They are one of the few pieces of evidence of the early Byzantine fortifications in Spania. We also studied the associated pottery assemblage, which includes Oriental, Balearic or most frequently Tunisian receptacles and vessels that reveal something of everyday life in the city during the Byzantine occupation.
Si quieres descargar el trabajo / If you want to download the full article: https://raco.cat/index.php/Pyrenae/article/view/372488
point of reference in our knowledge of milites Romani in Byzantine Spain
While the emperor Justinian was still trying to eradicate the cult of Isis in Egypt by closing the Philae temple, little or nothing remained of the Iseion in Carthago Spartaria, which had fallen victim to dynamics of obliteration in operation from the 3rd century AD onwards. As was the case with the other insulae around the forum, the sanctuary had been forced to adapt to the needs of the late city. These transformations were particularly intense in the Late Imperial period, when the Iseion was transformed into an active industrial area, which largely obscured its original character. The 6th and 7th centuries accentuated these changes even more, and all traces of the former sanctuary were finally obliterated by a new street layout. Some of the sanctuary’s substantial walls were still visible despite the rising of the floor level, and were used as foundations for the construction of a motley domestic complex.
Presentamos un fragmento de fuente en Terra Sigillata Africana D Hayes 104 C que cuenta con el motivo iconográfico cristiano de la curación del nacido ciego. La cronología del tipo, así como la del contexto cerámico en el que se hallaba, permiten refrendar la data para el uso de este motivo. Su pertenencia al denominado “atelier X” ofrece nuevos datos sobre el repertorio decorativo utilizado por esta producción tunecina aún poco conocida. Realizamos un análisis iconográfico de la escena, vinculándola con su presencia en otras artes, para profundizar en su significado en el contexto cultural de los siglos VI-VII.
volute lamp. Plutarch’s ‘weak-legged’ child (De Is. et Os. 19) is often depicted with a finger on or near his mouth, and this was an attribute used in Egypt to identify infants and which in Rome was associated with the silence that must accompany any religious ritual.
the Iberian Peninsula»
El Seminario está dirigido a licenciados y graduados en disciplinas humanísticas,
alumnos de los Grados de Humanidades, en particular los de Historia, Historia
del Arte, Geografía, Filología Clásica, Educación, y el público en general
interesado en ampliar conocimientos sobre Historia, Arqueología y el patrimonio
cultura
OBJETIVOS
1. Analizar las transformaciones de los modelos de ocupación y explotación del
territorio rural entre la Antigüedad Tardía y el mundo almohade, favoreciendo la
comprensión de las pautas de continuidad y ruptura entre estructuras políticas y
culturales diversas.
2. Investigar el proceso de disolución de las villae en Hispania tras el fin del
mundo romano, y los cambios asociados a la implantación de una nueva
estructura organizativa en torno a la qarya.
3. Avanzar en el conocimiento del proceso de cambio cultural en el sureste
hispano, abordando su singularidad en tanto espacio volcado al cercano norte de
África.
4. Estudiar el cambio social vinculado a las transformaciones socioeconómicas y,
de modo particular, la participación de las élites en dinámicas culturales como el
proceso de cristianización.
5. Abordar la singularidad de los modelos de producción y explotación del
territorio en época andalusí, imbricándolos en su organización defensiva y
religiosa.
6. Estudiar y contextualizar los nuevos hallazgos arqueológicos en la villa romana
de Los Torrejones de Yecla, en particular los de época tardoantigua y andalusí.
7. Conocer el nuevo proyecto expositivo del MAYE y estudiar in situ los vestigios
de Los Torrejones, como exponentes relevantes de la riqueza patrimonial e
histórica de Yecla
Edición formato online: 22-24 online
Más info: https://www.um.es/web/unimar/cursos-y-actividades/curso?id=51919&curso=2020
En este sentido, ha sido posible excavar un extenso barrio ubicado sobre el antiguo foro y sus insulae anexas, datado entre los siglos VI y VII. Dicho barrio, junto al componente residencial, ha ilustrado sobre otros aspectos que permanecían prácticamente desconocidos, como es el caso de las actividades productivas. Diversas instalaciones alfareras o
metalúrgicas y un depósito material ingente, ilustran sobre nuevas facetas de la ocupación bizantina en Hispania. Del mismo modo, la excavación de este importante sector urbano ha ayudado a completar
la fisonomía de Carthago Spartaria, permitiendo confrontarlo con otros lugares de su topografía y, muy especialmente, con el barrio habilitado sobre el antiguo teatro romano. A la luz de estos datos, es posible replantear la “lógica” de la presencia imperial en la ciudad, comprendiendo cómo, en buena medida, su configuración y depósitos materiales obedecen al contexto de ocupación, de “guerra”, por parte de los milites Romani.
VII REUNIÓ D’ARQUEOLOGIA CRISTIANA HISPÀNICA "EL CRISTIANISME EN L’ANTIGUITAT TARDANA. NOVES PERSPECTIVES"
Revista Electrónica Interuniversitaria de Formación del Profesorado (REIFOP)
Do schools take advantage of the local environment possibilities to teach the cultural heritage? This investigation constitutes a study about the promotion that educational centers carry out relating to the local cultural heritage through folklore. In thisway, it will look into the knowledge that teachers and students have about this topic, as well as the presence in the syllabus. In addition, it will analyze the cooperation between cultural institutions and schools for the promotion of local folklore. Following a non-experimental research method, in which teachers and students from different schools have participated, just as representatives of cultural associations. For the collection of information, a mixed methodology has been carried out, on the one hand, the survey, and on the other hand, the interview and discussion group. This research reflects the need to make aware schools and cultural and social institutions about the value that knowledge of our roots and traditions have for education, through something enriching, and present in our society, as is folklore.
The experience presented aims, on the one hand, to cover the need to create teaching materials in which cross-cutting, interdisciplinarity and gender and citizenship competences were its main thread so that they could be used in legal studies and, especially, in the framework of the subjects related to Roman Law. On the other hand, it aims to be an experience in teaching innovation, which has resulted in the realization of scientific research on the subject. All this has been carried out by a group of essentially interuniversity and multidisciplinary teachers. In addition, the transfer of results obtained has exceeded the university level to reach society in general. Keywords: Teaching innovation, women, Roman law, teaching materials, interdisciplinarity.
resultados de una nueva experiencia en la enseñanza/aprendizaje de las TIC en Arqueología, llevada a cabo en el marco de la asignatura optativa de cuarto curso
del Grado en Historia de la Universidad de Murcia, TIC para la Historia.
LA ANTIGUA ROMA, MADRID, EDITORIAL DYKINSON, 2018, pp. 436 (ISBN 978-84-9148-920-7)
Review by Jaime Vizcaíno in Revista General de Derecho Romano, 31, 2018
RGDR-IVSTEL
ISSN: 1697-3046, núm. 31, Diciembre (2018)
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new deposit can be dated to the first quarter of the 7th century. The assemblage emphasizes the close relationship between Hispania and North Africa between 6th and 7th centuries.
First, for its contribution to our knowledge about the history and sacred topography of the Roman colony of Carthago Nova between the 1st and 3rd centuries AD. The new sanctuary, whose temenos is almost completely preserved, provides further data with which to reconstruct the urban layout of the central sector of the colony, at the foot of the acropolis, between the harbour and the colonial forum, as well as presenting us with information about the cults introduced in the city by the gens isiaca in the opening decades of the 1st century AD; the chronology of the sanctuary, in the Flavian period, frames it within Vespasian’s promotion of the Isiac cult, which was to undergo what L. Bricault has labelled as a new wave of Mediterranean ‘penetration’. The sanctuary also allows for the exploration of the role played by the Isiac religion, which may have been made an official cult at this stage, and its brethren in the history of the colony during the early imperial period. Finally, the transformations undergone by the sanctuary between the 3rd and 7th centuries AD will provide valuable information about the urban, social and economic dynamics undergone by the city during Late Antiquity.
Second, the new sanctuary dramatically increases our knowledge about Nilotic cults in Hispania; the only Isiac sanctuaries known to date are located in Emporiae, Baelo Claudia, Italica and, perhaps, Panóias.
Third, its good state of preservation has allowed, following the standard criteria developed for Insula I, Parque Arqueológico del Molinete, to undertake conservation, restoration and musealisation works, turning the remains into a powerful resource with which to continue contributing to Cartagena’s cultural and touristic projects.
After the excavation and musealisation of the sanctuary came to an end in July 2017, and after the initial analysis of the results, this volume presents the sanctuary, its most prominent historical and archaeological features, and the conservation and restoration works undertaken, to the scientific community and the general public. The volume, therefore, is the expression of our commitment to archaeology and the management of archaeological heritage. It is divided into several sections. The two opening chapters introduce the cults of Isis and Serapis and the everyday routines of an Isiac sanctuary, as well as the role played by oriental and Alexandrine religions in Carthago Nova. The central section examines the sanctuary from the perspective of sacred spaces, as well as the urban, architectural and functional transformations undergone by the complex between the 3rd and 7th centuries. The final section focuses on the conservation and restoration works and on the various activities undertaken for the presentation of the sanctuary to the public. Some chapters (especially Chapter III), include a Catalogue with the finds that form the basis of archaeological interpretation.
The experience presented aims, on the one hand, to cover the need to create teaching materials in which cross-cutting, interdisciplinarity and gender and citizenship competences were its main thread so that they could be used in legal studies and, especially, in the framework of the subjects related to Roman Law. On the other hand, it aims to be an experience in teaching innovation, which has resulted in the realization of scientific research on the subject. All this has been carried out by a group of essentially interuniversity and multidisciplinary teachers. In addition, the transfer of results obtained has exceeded the university level to reach society in general.
CALL FOR PAPERS:
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