Imágenes, lengua y creencias en Lusitania romana

This publication considers the visual, linguistic and religious culture of the Roman province of Lusitania. Roman influence was especially notable in religion and artistic manifestations. It was in the cities where the Lusitanians acquired Roman civilization: they learned Latin, the Frankish language of the peninsula; they were introduced to the Roman administration and religion; and in the third century, when Rome converted to Christianity, so did the Lusitanians. The Latin language was imposed as the official language, functioning as a binding factor and communication between different peoples. Being a fairly large area and lacking a unified state that promoted a particular language in administration or education, different languages ​​coexisted simultaneously in Hispania. The subjects continued to use their native languages, although official business was conducted in Latin or Greek. Indigenous religions persisted, although sacrifices were offered everywhere for the emperor and the gods of the Roman pantheon. Visual culture also reflected the hybrid character of provincial civilization. Images of a Roman style and subject matter circulated widely, and yet the craftsmen and consumers of the provinces maintained their own traditions, adopting Roman techniques and tastes as they pleased. The papers in this volume establish a broad and generous view of the relationship between images, languages and religious culture within Lusitanian society.

Table of Contents:
Introducción – by Jorge Tomás García and Vanessa Del Prete ;  La vivencia en las villae: de las descripciones literarias a los espacios y programas decorativos en Lusitânia – by André Carneiro ;  Estudio de la devoción a Venus en Lusitania – by Vanessa Del Prete Mainer ;  Particularidades de la epigrafía lusitana: ¿comparte elementos con otras culturas o es un unicum? – by Gabriela de Tord Basterra ;  Deibabor igo deibobor Vissaieigobor. Notas para el estudio de la retención lingüística en la epigrafía religiosa de la Lusitania romana – by María José Estarán Tolosa ;  Revisitando os pedestais ao Divino Augusto: ligações sociais entre as elites de Olisipo e Emerita e o seu papel na munificência pública e no culto imperial – by Sara Henriques dos Reis ;  Moneda e imagen en el territorio lusitano – by Javier Herrera Rando ;  Cristãos Ibéricos e Antiguidade Clássica — o Baptistério de Milreu/Estói (Algarve) nos Finais da Antiguidade Tardia – by Stefanie Lenk ;  Los sacerdotes locales romanos en la ciudad romana de Olisipo. Su imagen pública epigráfica como miembros de la élite local – by Pere Mas Negre ;  Silvano y Silvanos. Reflexiones en torno a la imagen de un numen syluarum en contexto lusitano – by Cátia Mourão - Filomena Barata ;  Una estatua femenina con guirnalda en el Museo Nacional de Arte Romano de Mérida (Badajoz, España). Posible representación de Isis o de una de sus sacerdotisas en Augusta Emerita – by José María Murciano Calles ;  El “banquete funerario” en la tapa del sarcófago romano de Troia. La celebración que unió la religión, la muerte y el arte durante la Antigüedad Tardía – by Márcia Pinheiro ;  Las ceremonias de culto imperial provincial en Hispania y sus elementos integrantes. A propósito del altar del forum novum de Colonia Patricia – by Ana Portillo Gómez ;  La importancia del color en los Misterios de Mitra: el caso del altar de Tróia – by Claudina Romero Mayorga ;  Los encapuchados de Augusta Emerita, ¿ahuyentadores de espíritus y elementos de protección? – by Javier Salido Domínguez and Mariano Rodríguez Ceballos ;  El culto de Marte y la religiosidad del sur del actual territorio portugués en las zonas rurales – by Sílvia Teixeira

About the Author :
Jorge Tomás García PhD (Murcia, 2010) is Professor of Ancient Art at the Autonomous University of Madrid (Art History Department). Vanessa Del Prete Mainer PhD (Madrid, 2016), is Chief Editor of the academic journal Gods and Men (interdisciplinary studies regarding the sciences of religions), launched in 2018.