La iconología emblemática en las acuñaciones provinciales de la Hispania Citerior

Abstract

This PhD Thesis intends to aproach a study about the phenomen of diffusion of the icons of identitary symbology adopted in the provincial pieces coined by the mints localisated in the Hispania Citerior. To achieve this objective we present a detailed analysys about the two types of types of emblems disclosed from these monetary pieces. The local identification icons will be analyzed in the first volume of our work and the representative images of a wider territory in the second. Our investigation is based on the consideration that the study of some documentary sources, such as monetary icons, can document the identity characteristics that could define some of the civic communities integrated in most of the provinces of the Roman Empire. For this reason, in order to achieve the objectives of our research, we have decided to take into account the main theoretical-methodological approaches of the numismatic, iconological and historical-identitary studies. Thus, in the line of the purely numismatic research we have decided to analyze some elements related to coins whose iconology has been studied. Among these elements are the emission volumes, the values relative to the series in which the analyzed typologies were adopted, the presence of counter marks, etc. We have also analyzed the different elements related to the iconology, studying for it the origin of the image, the different meanings that it could have (general and / or local), its iconographic design and its final appearance. In addition, our research has focused on the analysis of the historical-identity elements of the cities that were related to this iconology, for which we have decided to analyze the cultural and legal-political characteristics of these centers, without forgetting that many of them could have coined money in the previous era.