Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica 27(1): 173-189 DOI: 10.47743/saa-2021-27-1-8 Gabriel Mircea TALMAȚCHI, Cristian CEALERA ABSTRACT The authors analyze a monetary hoard fragment found in 2012 that was only partially recovered. The hoard was located at a distance of approximately four km, in a straight line of the western gate of the Roman- Byzantine fortress Tropaeum Traiani. The 36 recovered coins are Roman Imperial denarii struck between the years 100 and 169/170 AD and belong to the following issuers: Traianus, Hadrianus, Antoninus Pius, Diva Faustina and Marcus Aurelius. If this structure given by the issuers respects the general composition of the hoard, it can be assumed that the hoard was hidden in the context of the events that developed in 170 AD, known as the military and robbery incursion lead by the Costoboci people in the Balkan Peninsula. Epigraphical and archaeological evidence regarding the impact of the incursion were found in Tropaeum(…)

Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica 27(1): 147-171 DOI: 10.47743/saa-2021-27-1-7 Pedro TRAPERO FERNÁNDEZ ABSTRACT This article analyses the Roman viticulture in Hasta Regia colony, southwest of the Iberian Peninsula, as an ideal place to model historical and economic conditioning factors of this activity. We propose a model that includes an analysis of the territory, the “Riparian” resources necessary for the vineyard, the conditioning factors of the ancient vineyard and finally the economic implications that derive from it. The method allows us to get closer to the management of this economic reality, as well as being able to check whether the various estimates are correct.   KEYWORDS ancient viticulture, GIS analysis, Hasta Regia colony, quantitative method   FULL ARTICLE Download PDF (free)

Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica 27(1): 133-145 DOI: 10.47743/saa-2021-27-1-6 Konstantinos ARAMPAPASLIS ABSTRACT This article identifies antiquarian excerpts in De Haruspicum responso and discusses their function with respect to Cicero’s argumentation. The arrangement of the material by subject aptly illustrates how thematically connected passages can serve multiple purposes within individual arguments. The analysis of each passage reveals Cicero’s manipulation of antiquarian information with the intention of tarnishing Clodius’ image or extoling himself and the senate. Through the implicit comparison with the actions and customs of the ancestors, the orator further achieves a broader goal, i.e. to sketch his opponent as a public enemy and himself as a statesman in defense of the respublica. All these excerpts gradually serve the main purpose of successfully elevating his personal case into a matter of state significance.   KEYWORDS antiquarianism, rhetoric, Cicero, De haruspicum responso, manipulation, Clodius Pulcher   FULL ARTICLE Download PDF (free)

Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica 27(1): 109-132 DOI: 10.47743/saa-2021-27-1-5 María José ESTARÁN TOLOSA ABSTRACT One of the most notable features of ancient Sagunto (Valencia) is its toponymic duality, especially remarkable in coin legends from the 130s BCE onwards, which is an exceptional fact for Hispania Citerior, in both qualitative and quantitative terms. Both toponyms, Arse and Saguntum, are not simultaneously attested in other sources: they are virtually absent in Republican epigraphy and literature only mentions the second one, in diverse variants. This paper analyses the data relative to this double toponymy in order to historically contextualize this phenomenon, linking it with the Latinization of the city and its explicit movements towards Rome during the 2nd and 1st centuries BCE, a process that we propose to articulate in four main milestones, according to the preserved documents. Besides, this paper offers an explanation to the prevalence of the toponym Saguntum (of local origin(…)

Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica 27(1): 65-108 DOI: 10.47743/saa-2021-27-1-4 José ORTIZ CÓRDOBA ABSTRACT This paper aims to provide an overview of the immigration of extra-Peninsular origin recorded in Colonia Patricia (Córdoba, Spain) based on the analysis of the available literary and epigraphic documentation. Starting from the foundation of the Roman city and its subsequent conversion into a colonia civium Romanorum, we will carry out an analysis of those individuals who, from the 2nd century BC, arrived in the city from non- Hispanic territories. We will deal with important aspects such as the regions and cities of origin of these immigrants, their professional occupations, the causes that determined their mobility and the activity they developed in Corduba after their arrival. Chronologically, our contribution covers the long period of time between the foundation of Corduba in the 2nd century BC by the consul M. Claudius Marcellus and the 5th century AD, which is(…)

Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica 27(1): 47-64 DOI: 10.47743/saa-2021-27-1-3 Larisa PECHATNOVA ABSTRACT The article explores the tradition about the unsuccessful attempt of the Spartan harmost Sphodrias to capture Piraeus in 378 BC. Since Sphodrias acted without an order, in Sparta he was brought to trial as a state offender. He owed his acquittal solely to king Agesilaus. The analysis of the tradition of Sphodrias’ trial leads the author to the conclusion that Agesilaus controlled the entire administration of Sparta, including the judicial panel. In Sphodrias’ trial the opinion of one person – Agesilaus – decided the outcome of the vote. The acquittal of Sphodrias initiated by Agesilaus is a weighty testimony to the great authority which this king possessed in the first decades of the 4th century BC (before the battle of Leuctra).   KEYWORDS Agesilaus, Cleombrotus, Sphodrias, Phoebidas, Xenophon, Diodorus, Plutarch, Sparta, Thebes   FULL ARTICLE Download PDF (free)

Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica 27(1): 33–46 DOI: 10.47743/saa-2021-27-1-2 Haggai OLSHANETSKY ABSTRACT The Israelite-Judaean Military Service in the Armies of Assyria has not been fully discussed, and this article is an attempt to offer a fuller picture of this phenomenon. This article is composed of two parts. The first will concentrate and discuss all the evidence we have for Israelite and Judaean units that were absorbed into the Assyrian army, which will be used as a foundation for the second half of the article. All this will attempt to show that the inscription detailing the Assyrian capture of 200 Israeli chariots, rather than 50 as is written in another inscription, is the more accurate one, and then discuss the implications of such a conclusion. The second part is the first attempt to concentrate all the names of possible Assyrian soldiers who are of Israelite and/or Judaean origin. The first and second(…)

Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica 27(1): 1–32 DOI: 10.47743/saa-2021-27-1-1 Ioannis LIRITZIS, Artemios OIKONOMO ABSTRACT The present paper constitutes a review of the archaeometric (or archaeological sciences) studies focusing on the area of Aegean between 30000 and 3000 BC., alongside a focus on the area of Dodecanese islands (SE Aegean) for the period from 800 to 200 BC. This systematic work is part of a project (2012-2013) that aimed to create a database including metadata related to the diachronic habitation in Aegean. The current review is classified into nine broad categories, namely Chemical Analysis, Dating Techniques, Palaeoenvironment, aDNA Analysis, Archaeomagnetism, Isotopic Analysis, Restoration and Conservation and Geophysical studies. This interdisciplinary review serves as a useful guide to a significant academic discipline, that of archaeological sciences, which is progressively advanced in methods, techniques and major applications. Delving into the material culture offers valuable information to the deciphering of the human prehistoric and historic(…)