EPIGRAPHY OF OTHER TERRITORIES OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE

1. Detailed Projects:

1.1. Study of the epigraphy of North Africa

The LITTERA group has fomented scientific collaboration with a number of univeristies of Marocco. Thus, during the 1998-2001 period, the Programa de Cooperación Científica y Tecnológica con los países del Magreb (Scientific and Technologic Collaboration Program with the Countries of the Magreb), supported by the Minsitry of Education, Culture, and Sports of the Spanish Goverment funded a project called “Expositive Integration of the Epigraphic Elements in the Roman City of Volubilis (Marocco)”, which is understood as a first step towards the musealisation of the inscriptions found in the Volubilis Roman archaeological site.

1.2. Studies on the epigraphy of the Western Roman Empire:

Occasionally, and either as a counterpart to some of the above lines of research or as a separate one, the group has studied the inscriptions of territories of other Roman provinces of the Western Empire.

In this sense, the collaboration begun on 1999 with a research group belonging to the French CNRS aiming at the study of the forms of Hellenism in the Iberian Peninsula must be pointed out. This line of research has had the benefit of a research project called “Hellenism in the Iberian Peninsula during Roman Domination”, inserted in the Programa Nacional de Promoción General del Conocimiento (MEC PFE 1999-003) for the 1998-2001 period. Funds from the PICS Program (Scientific Co-operation International Program with the French CNRS) supported by the Direcció General d’Investigació Científica of the Generalitat de Catalunya have also been received for the project named “Helenism in the Iberian Peninsula in Roman Times” for the 2002-2004 period.

Additionally, Xavier Espluga has taken an interest in the Italian territory of Calabria, and has been collaborating from 1993 with the research that the History Department of the Università di Sassari is carrying out in the archaeological dite of Uchi Maius (Tunisia). This collaboration has resulted in his participation on the tasks of inverntory of the Roman inscriptions of this locality, as well as in his contribution to the first published volume concerning this site (Uchi Maius I), in which the conclusions of his research are collected.

2. Works published by LITTERA: