ON SOME RURAL EPIGRAPHIC WHOLES FROM INLAND ROMAN GALLAECIA: A PROPOSAL OF INTERPRETATION

Abstract

Through an integral analysis of epigraphic record, a study of some roman epigraphic wholes located in the northern half of Galicia is brought up, according to external and internal epigraphic criteria, as well as to the record relationship with the physic and epigraphic landscape around it. These wholes could be indicating the presence of epigraphic horizons or provincial areas with common cultural elements, whose interaction with the epigraphic habit would have led to productions with their own characteristic features. In short, the possibility of identifying rural sectors which would have developed characteristic epigraphic models is proposed, reflecting the manifold inner dynamics when getting in contact with and developing such an important acculturating material as Roman
epigraphy.