Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Spain and Roman imperialism
- 2 Spain before the Romans
- 3 The war zone: 218–206
- 4 Continuity and adaptation: 206–194
- 5 The shaping of the provinciae: 193–155
- 6 The consular provinciae: the wars in Spain 155–133
- 7 From provinciae to provinces: 133–82
- 8 Rome, Spain and imperialism
- Appendices
- I Praetors and provinciae 197–195
- II The chronology of the Spanish provinciae 155–133
- III The chronology of the Spanish provinciae 133–81
- IV The sources of Appian's Ibērikē, with special reference to the events of 152–151
- V The Tabula Alcantarensis
- Bibliography
- Index
V - The Tabula Alcantarensis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of maps
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Spain and Roman imperialism
- 2 Spain before the Romans
- 3 The war zone: 218–206
- 4 Continuity and adaptation: 206–194
- 5 The shaping of the provinciae: 193–155
- 6 The consular provinciae: the wars in Spain 155–133
- 7 From provinciae to provinces: 133–82
- 8 Rome, Spain and imperialism
- Appendices
- I Praetors and provinciae 197–195
- II The chronology of the Spanish provinciae 155–133
- III The chronology of the Spanish provinciae 133–81
- IV The sources of Appian's Ibērikē, with special reference to the events of 152–151
- V The Tabula Alcantarensis
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This bronze, the left-hand section of a tablet, and including the upper, lower and left edges, was discovered in the course of the excavation of a hill-top site known as Villavieja, near Alcántara, in the province of Caceres, on the southern side of the river Tagus towards the frontier with Portugal. It was first published by R. López Melero, J. L. Sánchez Abal and S. García Jiménez in Gerión 2 (1984) 265–323.
The bronze contains virtually the whole of the text of a record of the deditio of a people, whose name is partially lost at the break at the end of line 2, to L. Caesius, presumably the moneyer of 112 or 111 BC (Crawford, RRC no. 298), but previously unknown as a magistrate or pro-magistrate in Spain. It is unlikely that there was a second column of text, since the indenting of the names of the consuls in the first line suggests that the consul-date was centred with respect to the inscription as a whole; even if the word CONSVLIBUS appeared in full, the tablet would still be insufficiently wide for a further column.
The text which follows is based on the reading of the first editors, with supplements of my own.
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- HispaniaeSpain and the Development of Roman Imperialism, 218–82 BC, pp. 199 - 201Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1986