Estudios sobre el África romana

These collected papers are for those who have their gaze fixed on the fascinating mosaic of cultures that was the North-African world from the moment Rome appeared in the region. Most articles are dedicated to the world of images, but other subjects include Historiography, Archaeology of Architecture, and Libyan-Berber ethnicities.

This collective work, carried out by both senior and beginning researchers, is for those scholars who have their gaze fixed on the fascinating mosaic of cultures that was the North-African world from the moment Rome appeared in the region. Even before this date, the arrival of Phoenicians on the continent and their subsequent spread throughout the north of it, initiated a rich process of contacts, interchanges and relations with the Libyan-Berber populations that inhabited the zone from time immemorial. To this scene of ancient cultural diversity -which also included an Egyptian component- Rome brought its own riches, generating in the region new episodes of cultural and religious syncretism. All these subjects are treated in the present book through some specific scientific contributions whose geopolitical frame is the whole Proconsular Africa. Most of the articles in this volume are dedicated to the world of images, but others also treat many other issues as Historiography, Archaeology of Architecture, Libyan-Berber ethnicities and even cultural parallels between North Africa and the Iberian Peninsula. u Esta obra colectiva, llevada a cabo por investigadores seniors y jovenes, va dirigida a aquellos estudiosos con la mirada puesta en el fascinante mosaico de culturas que fue el mundo norteafricano cuando Roma hizo su aparicion en la region. Ya antes de esa fecha, la llegada de fenicios al continente y su ulterior expansion por todo el norte del mismo abrio un rico proceso de contactos, intercambios y relacion con los pueblos libico-bereberes que habitaban en la zona desde tiempos que se pierden en la memoria. A ese escenario de diversidad cultural milenaria -en el que no hay que excluir el componente egipcio- se incorporo Roma llevando consigo su propia riqueza ancestral, producto, a su vez, del crisol cultural del que habia nacido, generando asi, en la region, nuevos episodios de sincretismos culturales y religiosos. Todos estos aspectos son los que se tratan en este volumen, a traves de un conjunto de aportaciones cientificas puntuales cuyo marco geopolitico comprende toda el Africa Proconsular. Se ha prestado especial atencion al mundo de las imagenes, pero tambien se han abordado otros asuntos, como los relacionados con la Historiografia, la Arqueologia de la Arquitectura, las etnias libico-bereberes e incluso los paralelismos culturales entre el norte de Africa y la Peninsula Iberica.

Prólogo

Preface (in English)

Agradecimientos

Principales repertorios utilizados

Arqueología y cuestiones historiográficas: La investigación arqueológica en el Magreb: fabricando identidades (El caso de Túnez) – by Nayra Bethencourt González

Las exploraciones arqueológicas del conde Byron Khun de Prorok en África – by Jorge García Sánchez

Aproximación a la compleja historia arquitectónica de las Termas de Antonino Pío en Cartago – by Julio Núñez, Mitxel Salazar, Carlos Pérez, Oscar Reinares

L’Antiquité dans le Ribat de Monastir: les chapiteaux et les corbeaux – by Ahmed Sayadi

Líbicos y púnicos en el África romana: Los pueblos líbicos del norte de África: territorio, conceptos, fuentes – by Estefanía A. Benito Lázaro

Sincretismo, alteridad y polisemia en el relieve de las siete divinidades líbico-púnicas de Béja (Túnez) – by Beatriz Calvo Bartolomé

Hic sunt Musulami. Desterritorialización, pueblos y límites en el África romana. El caso de los musulamios – by Sergio España-Chamorro

El sarcófago antropoide masculino del Museo Nacional de Cartago: algunas consideraciones – by Raquel Rubio González, M. Inmaculada Martín Martín

El sacrificio animal en las estelas neopúnicas del norte de África – by Azael Varas Mazagatos

Survivances de croyances et de rituels puniques: à propos de quelques figurines en terre cuite, de tradition punique, de la région d’El Jem – by Samia Zeghal-Yazidi

Roma en África: Clásico y anticlásico en el imaginario del África romana – by Fabiola Salcedo Garcés

Los relieves de Victorias del Museo Nacional de Cartago (Túnez) – by Raquel Rubio González

Retratos femeninos de Cartago – by Paloma Mora Bernaldo de Quirós

El Relieve de las Ménades de Thuburbo Maius (Túnez) – by Macarena Calderón Sánchez, Irene de Lucas Clemente

La identidad de Saeculum Frugiferum: ¿divinidad o alegoría? – by Silvia Bonacasa Sáez

Saturno Africano. Cuestiones sobre imagen y culto – by Mónica Galea González, Azael Varas Mazagatos

Cultos orientales en el África romana: el caso de Cibeles – by Erika Rodríguez Angulo

Iconografía de Iuno Caelestis: estado de la cuestión – by Beroiz von Kursell Pérez de Rada

Entre Cartago y Roma: ejemplos de la cerámica ibérica pintada figurada – by Juan A. Santos Velasco

Fabiola Salcedo Garces is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the Complutense University of Madrid. In 1991 she moved to Rome to write her doctoral thesis about the Iconography of the Roman provinces, in particular, the province of Africa, at the Escuela Espanola de Historia y Arqueologia de Roma (EEHAR, CSIC). The result of that research was the book Africa. Iconografia de una provincia romana (Rome-Madrid, CSIC, 1996). During her long stay in Rome, she began to work in the Tusculum project, developed also by the EEHAR, as well as the Soprintendenza Archeologica per il Lazio. In this case, she was specifically devoted to the study of the collection of sculptural materials belonging to the city and to the villas of the Tusculan surroundings. Due to this research she published the volume Tusculana Marmora. Escultura clasica en el antiguo Tusculano (CSIC, Madrid, 2016). She has worked in Pompeii (“Casa de la Diana Arcaizante” project) and she currently directs several investigations focusing on Roman Africa studies. Estefania Benito Lazaro is researcher of the Arqueologia Africana Group and of others investigation projects developed at the Complutense University of Madrid. She is specialist in the Libyan-Berber world, subject to which she dedicates her current doctoral thesis. She has carried out several stays of research in Tunisia and in relevant scientific European institutions, as the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and the Escuela Espanola de Historia y Arqueologia en Roma (EEHAR, CSIC). ; Sergio Espana-Chamorro is Doctor in Ancient World Studies by the Complutense University of Madrid. He currently works as postdoctoral researcher at the Escuela Espanola de Historia y Arqueologia en Roma (EEHAR, CSIC) and Associated Professor of the Isabel I University. His investigations are focused on Landscape Archaeology in the Baetica, Africa and Italy, besides his participation in research projects on domestic spaces in Pompeii and the Roman sculpture of Carthage. He has also worked in prestigious scientific institutions, as the University of Southampton, the centre CIL of the Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, the “Aldo Moro” University of Bari and the Musei dei Fori Imperiali-Mercati di Traiano (Rome).

• Edited by Fabiola Salcedo Garcés
• Edited by Estefanía Benito Lázaro
• Edited by Sergio España-Chamorro